749 - What words do you use to talk to yourself?

New Mindset, Who Dis?

Case Kenny

Motivation, Selfhelp, Mindset, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Wellness, Relationships, Mental Health, Inspiration, Personaldevelopment, Society & Culture

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this episode, I talk about the science of hope. I talk about "agency" and "pathways" and how a focus on both with language can change how you move through life. My new book "The Opposite of Settling" is out now! Instagram: @case.kenny

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on
0:07.2	Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I create short no BS episodes dedicated to helping
0:13.0	you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and
0:17.9	fulfilling life. Let's go.
0:49.8	Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 749.
0:56.1	Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset Who Dis. As always, thank you so much for listening.
1:14.4	Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about what I've learned and what I teach to be the most powerful tool in your arsenal to be more hopeful, to be more optimistic to realize and firmly believe that this isn't it, that a bad chapter does not define your life's next chapter, that things truly can and do get better overnight. And it's all
1:21.3	about language with this. So this is very practical. The words that we use in our heads and our
1:26.3	hearts to narrate our lives, it doesn't just describe the reality we're in, it builds it.
1:32.7	And even more specifically on like a scientific level, it shapes the neural pathways that decide whether we should keep going or whether we should just give up.
1:42.2	And so to start, I want to reference the work of a psychologist named Charles Snyder,
1:47.6	who basically in the 90s, he began noticing something in his clinical work.
1:52.5	He noticed that people who recovered faster from setbacks,
1:56.5	they didn't just feel different.
1:58.0	It wasn't just vibes with them.
1:59.4	They spoke very differently.
2:01.4	Their self-talk was filled with verbs, not adjectives, not verdicts.
2:07.0	They said things like, I will try another way.
2:09.8	I will figure this out instead of I can't or it's over.
2:13.8	And so he noticed this and he wanted to measure what I think a lot of people had already decided was too difficult to measure, too intangible to quantify, which is the idea of hope, hope, the mood, hope itself.
2:28.3	Him and his research team at the University of Kansas went on to develop what became known as the Hope Scale, which is a tool designed to
2:35.7	measure the two mental ingredients that Snyder theorized made up hope.
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