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"Hope is not wishful thinking, optimism, or ‘the power of positive thinking’.
There’s nothing wrong with being optimistic, of course. Research shows that
optimism is associated with many beneficial outcomes. But that doesn’t mean
it’s the same as hope. The Cambridge Dictionary defines optimism as ‘the
feeling that in the future good things are more likely to happen than bad
things’. The influential psychologists Charles Carver and Michael Scheier, who
have built careers studying optimism, describe it as the tendency to believe
that outcomes in life will generally be positive, favourable or desirable. In
other words, optimists simply believe things will work out for the better. The
future is bound to be good. For this reason, they’re often said to wear
rose-coloured glasses or see the glass as half full – sometimes with cherry
soda.
Hope isn’t the same as glass-half-full thinking, however. Hope is applicable
even when the glass is only a third full or has nothing in it at all. That’s
because true hope isn’t about living in a fantasy world; it’s about living in
this one. For instance, it doesn’t deny suffering and pain."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
