Work Shift: A Military Psychologist Drills Us on How to Stay Positive at Work

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The economy is wandering, Eastern Europe is at war, extreme weather rages and political polarization continues ahead of midterm elections. “We’re hanging on to optimism by a thread,” says Nate Zinsser, director of the performance psychology program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. We asked him to drill us on how to stay upbeat and succeed at work even in tumultuous times.