Sublime

But hope is not what most of us think it is. It’s not a warm, fuzzy emotion that fills us with a sense of possibility. Hope is a way of thinking—a cognitive process. Yes, emotions play a role, but hope is made up of what researcher C. R. Snyder called a “trilogy of goals, pathways, and agency.”

— Espere e você logo vai descobrir. Você não conhece um ditado que diz que a esperança é uma virtude?

Hope is: a clear and specific goal agency thinking. Belief you have control over what you do, that your actions matter, and you can impact the results in your life.10 pathways thinking. You see a path, have a path, or can create multiple paths from where you are now to your goal.

»Zu hoffen heißt, allen Anzeichen zum Trotz zu glauben und dann zu sehen, wie sich die Anzeichen ändern.«

hope, the belief that present circumstances can be overturned, that they need not—that they must not—have the final word.