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Christian Dittus
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English

THE HOPEFUL SKEPTIC

Jamil Zaki

Escaping Cynicism in a World Overwhelmed by It

Based on a mainstage Ted Talk, Zaki aims to explore cynicism through the lens of hope, walking us through its history and current -- potentially devastating -- place in society. Filled with fascinating anecdotes, compelling research, and helpful tools to combat cynicism fallout, THE HOPEFUL SKEPTIC will unfold as a medical mystery, dissecting what cynicism is, how it harms us, and how we can treat it. It is a book for now, for any person who wakes up and feels the inevitability of our nations' growing divide.

Zaki's first book, THE WAR FOR KINDNESS, was published by Crown in 2019. A book to help people understand empathy as a skill to be used, it has sold 40,000 copies across formats and continues to be adopted into college courses. Zaki's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Harvard Business Review.
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Published by Grand Central Publishing

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UK: Robinson (Little, Brown); Korea: Prunsoop;