This year, thousands of great things are going to happen, but most people won’t even notice. Unfortunately, we live in a world that is hopelessly fixed on negative narratives, and always has.

CBS once deemed 1963 “the year that everything happened”. However, most historians primarily focus on one big event: The day JFK was shot. That was a BIG, tragic moment in American History. It dominated all news for the remainder of the year.

But there was so much more that happened:

• Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" gave a singular voice and a vision to the civil rights movement.

• The emergence of the Beatles begat the British Invasion which changed pop culture and music forever.

• Dr. James Hardy successfully completed the first lung transplant- a procedure which today saves 2000 lives a year.

“For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell,” historian Deirdre N. McCloskey once told The New York Times.

Although headlines easily recall the horrors of the day, innovators quietly shape humanity’s path for the rest of time.

in 2024, we’re going to hear a lot about what could and does go wrong. A potential recession. A contentious election. Multiple foreign wars. Each is a story, but never the full story.

This year, I encourage you to find and appreciate the good that’s quietly happening around us. In time, those may be the only things that still matter.