Hello and welcome back to practicing human the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host Kory Miskara and in today's episode we're going to talk about hope.

And I'm going to share a particularly powerful practice

you could do around gratitude to help cultivate more hope in your life.

More to come on all of that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. The So over the next few episodes I'm going to be talking more about the science of hope and practices to cultivate greater hope in your life.

A lot of this is in parallel with the launch of my friend and colleagues book

Learned Hopefulness, written by Dr. Dan Thomasulo.

And you might be thinking, Corey,

I don't want you pitching your friend's books on this podcast.

Listen, this book is not just written by a friend,

it is endorsed by Deepakchopra, Angela Duckworth,

leading psychologists around the world, Adam Grant, and I've read it and it's amazing and I've been waiting for him to launch it so that I can share some of the nuggets with you.

So when you think of hope, or I think most of us have like an idea of what that

what that means for us. It sometimes feels like overly positive.

But that's interesting because hope is the only

positive emotion that needs negativity

or uncertainty to be activated.

You might feel like you either have hope or you don't, and that's also not true.

It can be activated and cultivated. You might feel like, well, having hope is the same as faith.

And that's not true.

Hope is when we believe we can positively impact our future.

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