# Greatness Demands that You Protect Your Positivity \[At All Costs\]

An episode of [The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521068608), 28 Aug 2026, 11 min.

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## Transcript

The radical optimist's mindset. You know, one of my favorite words these days is possibilitarian. I've been teaching it for many years, but I'm starting to embrace it in my own life more than ever before. And related to this term being a possibilitarian is some science. And it comes from Ellen Langer, the preeminent researcher and psychologist from Harvard University. And years ago, she came up with this term called the psychology of possibility. this concept of not being a victim, but being a possibilitarian. Not being a naysayer, but being someone who walks out there full of enthusiasm. You know, if you were to look around the world right now, how many people do you see in the world whose eyes are still sparkling? How many people do you see in the world they bring on their childlike nature? You know, when you were a little kid, your eyes sparkled, you would dance. after a rainstorm, when you listen to music that you loved, you'd start to cry. When you got hurt, you'd start to cry. You pretty much said whatever you want, unfiltered. You wanted to be an astronaut. You wanted to be a billionaire. And you want, well, maybe not a lot of five-year-olds want to be a billionaire, but maybe it's an entrepreneur. You wanted also to be a poet and you wanted to be a superhero. And then what happened? As you left the perfection of childhood, The world, through grown-ups and media, other teachers and peers, suddenly and incrementally brainwashed you out of your magnificence and your majesty. And your dreams started to die. And your self-faith started to be smothered. And that blazing fire to be an everyday hero to live a beautiful life and to stand for love and mastery and excellence and to do your part to build a better world went out. And you you look around the world right now and a lot of people have resigned themselves to average. A lot of people are half alive. A lot of people are sort of checked out. A lot of people are numbed out about distraction. A lot of people are

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