Robert H. Schuller
It took the medical world many years to realize that the presence of hope in a given patient might just be one of the best controllable resources he has to overcome illness.
It took the business world a long time to realize that an employee with hope has more motivation and will also "produce" more for the company.
As for politicians….can't answer that one as I don't know many whom I really trust to cultivate and not manipulate human hope.
It was Viktor Frankl, the famed psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who so vividly described in his writings that it was those concentration camp inmates who garnered, cultivated and maintained hope, that managed (to some degree) to survive.
His approach of logotherapy was developed on the idea that hope and meaning are what drives human beings.
We tend to forget about hope as an essential life resource, often relegating it to a "nice to have" status- this should not be the case.
We coaches know how important it is indeed to help our clients find the path of hope in their lives, plans and aspirations.
As the article below describes, those "with hope" fare far better than those without.
In his last presentation to the American Psychological Association in 2005, the late C.S. Snyder, a foremost researcher in the field, laid out the results of studies conducted over a decade using the “Hope Scale,” a measuring tool and test he created.
“Low hope” individuals, he found, have ambiguous goals and work toward them one at a time, whereas “high hope” individuals often pursue five or six clear goals simultaneously.
Hopeful people had preferred routes to achievement and alternate pathways in case of obstacles. Low scorers didn’t.
Let's keep an eye out for ourselves and for others to detect where hope is lacking, perhaps we can do just a little bit more to help both ourselves and others get up that "hope learning curve"- because learning to have hope is also a skill that can be taught.
And if it can be taught it can be done.
Growing Hope
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