Resilience can't be taught. Hope can.
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"What we are seeking when we tell someone to be resilient (is that) we want them to realize that things will be better in the future if they only follow these techniques. The trouble is resilience doesn't really provide a framework for how to develop measurable techniques.
"Hope, on the other hand, does provide a framework.
"Hope is a 'cognitive-based motivational theory in which [people] learn to create strategies as a means to attain their desired goals. Hope theory has two fundamental cognitive processes termed 'pathways' and 'agency'".
Dr. Chan Hellman, a leading researcher in the science of hope, names six principles of Hope:
- Hope is a way of thinking, not an emotion.
- Imagination is the instrument of Hope.
- Hope is not wishful thinking.
- Hope begets Hope.
- Hope is a social gift.
- Hope can be taught.
To learn more about Dr. Hellman's work, visit his website.
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