Mercury Retrograde: what to do when the you-know-what starts flying.
We don’t know about you, but here at SuperOptimist headquarters, the past couple of weeks have been filled with more than our share of unfortunate events: a car battery dying…
Author: Nathaniel Whitten
The more time on your hands, the better.
The other day, a friend who chooses to make art rather than work a conventional job presented his latest creation, a sculpture built from found objects coupled with a backstory…
Behold the answer you’re searching for!
Whether it’s a cure for procrastination, a way to beat the stock market, a method for hacking your brain to achieve total clarity, or the one diet that will help…
How to make $1900 doing absolutely nothing!
While it seems like a contradiction in terms, it takes a lot of hard work to achieve nothingness, as any zen master will attest. But now it’s not only wise…
Forgetting more than usual? You may be a genius!
Recently, a friend of the SuperOptimist expressed concern that their memory was heading south. “I just finished this great book about New York last week. It’s called…uh…oh, my god, what’s…
Three magic words that will set you free.
Whether you’re talking about free markets vs. government intervention, Peloton vs. Soulcycle, or who qualifies as the best rock band of all time, everyone seemingly has an opinion. Some more…
How to become the next Charli D’Amelio!
What do you mean, you don’t know who Charli D’Amelio is? She’s only the most popular personality on TikTok, with 76 million followers and counting! (The number changes constantly, there’s…
SuperOptimist Celebrity of the Moment: Mickey Rourke.
There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned Hollywood mud-sling to get the juices flowing, as the latest Mickey Rourke-Robert De Niro dust-up proves. Rourke demonstrates his SuperOptimist bonafides by thinking he’s…
Tolerance training in the age of zero tolerance.
A Muslim, a Catholic, an African American, a Jewish person, a Hispanic, a Wasp, a native American, a lesbian, an old woman, a gender-neutral person, a Chinese communist, a Russian…
Question authority. And everybody else too.
In the past six months, we’ve gone from world leaders saying there was no major threat from Wuhan to a rip-roaring pandemic. We’ve seen medical experts say that only the…