The 3 elements of hopeĪccording to Snyder’s theory, hope has three distinct elements a goal, a pathway, and willpower. ![]() The lunch you will have will be tasty, the piece of work a masterpiece and the happy event full of joy and laughter. If we can use those thoughts in a positive way, then we create hope. This is because we have evolved to think in a predictive way and as such those thoughts are causal. As far as we know this is something unique to a human, we re the only species we are aware of that constantly thinks in the future. It may be thinking about what you are having for lunch, or a piece of work that needs to be done, or maybe a happy event you are looking forward to. You may sit and think about a past event, but it’s more likely you will think of an event in the future. Unless you are skilled at meditation its unlikely that you will sit and not think of anything. Try sitting for a moment and not do anything. There is a direct relationship between our hope and our achievements. With hope we can achieve anything, it just depends on how high our level of hope is. Hope is the emotion that carries us through difficult and troubled times, and yet it is often one of the most understated and least understood. Hope is a place we create for ourselves which is better than the place we are right now or have been before. What happens when we take our past memories, mix them with who we are now and carry those in to the future to create new memories? By doing this we are experiencing hope. But just how much does this define who we really are, and how helpful is this to us when moving forward? Creating a memory of the future Did we get the right grades at school? Have we performed well in our previous job? Of course, we don’t yet have the ability to see into the future so its understandable that we are judged on our past endeavours as this is all anyone has to go on. However, when we apply to a school a college or a job, we are judged solely on our past. Our past achievements show what we can do, our present state is who we are right now, and our future state offers the potential of who we may become. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a TED talk by Shane Lopez he talks about how we are in 3 states of being past, present, and future and these states determine who we are. We all carry memories from past events, hopefully many of those are happy ones we can look back on with some joy and satisfaction. At the time of writing this blog, 2018 has just started and I have begun a new journal outlying all my goals for the year ready to create lots of new memories.
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