Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're

getting a little better at life. I'm your host, Cory Muscarra, 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.

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 Tamasulo. Now you might be thinking, Cory, 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 Deepak Chopra, Angela Duckworth, leading

psychologist 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 while having hope is the same as faith, and that's not true.

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

believe something else will. So there's a lot of really cool research around hope

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