Bill Nye: Pessimistic people don't get very much done

Bill Nye gave one important piece of advice Goucher College graduates in 2019: be optimistic.

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00:00If you couldn't choose where you would be born on earth, but you could choose when,

00:07this would be the time to be born. This is the most exciting time in human history.

00:13Life is better now for more of us than ever before in history. As strange as it may seem,

00:20this really is the best time. The opportunities before us are amazing. No matter what else is

00:26going on, everyone please be optimistic. People who are not optimistic don't get very much done.

00:35They get spun up and worn down by their own self-doubt and they'll bring you down with them.