Sumit Paul-Choudhury — author, editor and Managing Director, Alternity Limited Associate Professor Laura D'Olimpio — School of Education, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom ...

While it sounds surprising, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, author of The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World and How You Can Be One, consciously decided to be an optimist after the death of his ...

Bright Side Sumit Paul-Choudhury Canongate £20, 288pp There is an old Russian parable about two frogs that are dropped into milk churns. The first, realising it can’t jump or climb to safety ...

The Bright Side: How Optimists Change the World, and How You Can Be One Sumit Paul-Choudhury. Scribner, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-66803-140-7 ...

Paul-Choudhury, S. (2025, January 4). ‘I became an optimist the night my wife died’: A science writer on loss and letting go of rationalism. The Guardian Paul-Choudhury, S. (2025).

In sci-fi novels, people are often cut off from civilisation by a ‘cosy catastrophe’. Sumit Paul-Choudhury looks at how the breakdown of society can usher in a different world.

Agnes Callard, Sumit Paul-Choudhury and Keon West discuss how to live in the 21st century, and whether ancient philosophy can offer any solutions to racism, with Adam Rutherford Show more ...

References Paul-Choudhury, S. (2025, January 4). ‘I became an optimist the night my wife died’: A science writer on loss and letting go of rationalism. The Guardian Paul-Choudhury, S. (2025).