What are you up to TONIGHT at 6.30? Are you ready to explore ideas with like-minded people
Come to Timbermill Studios 6.30-8pm. It’s a free, welcoming space - held every Tuesday with a different topic - to discuss fascinating topics, share your thoughts, hear others’ perspectives and give your brain a work out — no prior knowledge of philosophy required.
This week we’re discussing
the topic of Gratitude and Optimism:
A Few jump-off points:
1. What is gratitude, fundamentally?
2. Is there ever a time when gratitude isn’t a good thing? Can it make you too passive?
3. Is there a level of forgiveness required in yourself and others in order to be truly grateful?
4. Have you ever had gratitude for people who wronged you?
5. What about a hardship that wasn’t good, are you grateful on it looking back?
6. Are gratitude and optimism virtues, or coping mechanisms?
7. How to balance optimism and gratitude with realistic expectations? (Stockdale paradox)
8. How to be more grateful?
9. Is the news specifically designed to shut off our gratitude and optimism filters? �
10. Can gratitude make you more courageous, or could it make you complacent?
Ps. It’s a casual, welcoming space so feel free to extend the invite to friends, family and colleagues. It runs every Tuesday so just turn up!
Join the WhatsApp group to see the topic drop every Sunday.
(when you join WhatsApp you don’t see the previous conversations, so just wait until an admin posts)
https://chat.whatsapp.com/GbBPBfGT7uvHjOuAPe0Apb
And some further info from our local newspaper.
https://regionillawarra.com.au/rediscover-the-lost-art-of-conversation-at-bullis-practical-philosophy-club/53679/?
Also check out other Arts events in Wollongong.
