Today’s book: The Psychology of Hope by Charles R. Snyder—a groundbreaking, science-based look at how hope fuels achievement, resilience, and well-being—and how anyone can learn to grow it.
Here’s your 1-minute summary:
- Hope = agency + pathways. Hopeful people believe they can reach goals (agency) and know how to find ways around obstacles (pathways).
- Hope predicts success. Across school, sports, and life, hope outperforms intelligence and raw talent.
- You can train hope. Set clear goals, brainstorm multiple strategies, and build belief through small wins.
- Obstacles become challenges. High-hope people see setbacks as puzzles to solve—not signals to quit.
- Hope is contagious. Your hope can lift others. Model it. Teach it. Share it.
Hope isn’t passive, it’s powerful. What goal will you move toward with agency and action today?
Again, as always, check out the Notes on this great book, The Psychology of Hope. You've got to know that your future will be better than your present. You have to have a sense of agency so you can make it so. And, of course, a plan (and multiple plans and pathways) to make it come to fruition.
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