Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others (32 page)

A lot of the time

Most of the time

All of the time

Scoring:
The total Children’s Hope Scale score is achieved by adding the responses to the six items, with “None of the time” = 1; “A little of the time” = 2; “Some of the time” = 3; “A lot of the time” = 4; “Most of the time” = 5; and, “All of the time” = 6. The responses to the three odd numbered items are totaled for the Agency score and the responses to the even numbered items are tallied for the Pathways score.

Scales reprinted with permission.

Snyder, C. R., Harris, C., Anderson, J. R., Holleran, S. A., Irving, L. M., Sigmon, S. T., Yoshinobu, L., et al. (1991). The will and the ways: Development and validation of an individual-differences measure of hope.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 60 (4), 570–585. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.60.4.570.

Snyder, C. R., Hoza, B., Pelham, W. E., Rapoff, M., Ware, L., Danovsky, M., Highberger, L., Rubinstein, H., and Stahl, K. J. (1997). The development and validation of the Children’s Hope Scale.
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
, 22, 399–421.

S
HANE
J. L
OPEZ,
Ph.D.
, a Gallup Senior Scientist, is the world’s leading authority on the psychology of hope. He has published seven professional books, including
The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology
. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

SHANE J. LOPEZ,
PH.D.,
a Gallup Senior Scientist, is the world’s leading authority on the psychology of hope. He has published seven professional books, including the
Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology
. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas. You can find him on Twitter
@hopemonger
.

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Chapter 1: What the Man with No Future Taught Me About Hope

C. R. Snyder,
The Psychology of Hope: You Can Get There from Here
. New York: Free Press, 1994. The first practical and scientifically based introduction to hope and how it works in real life. From the distinguished psychologist whose research is the basis for much of today’s understanding of the subject.

Chapter 2: Looking for Hope

Jerome Groopman,
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
. New York: Random House, 2003. A physician’s compassionate telling of how he has seen patients facing serious illness use their hope to survive and thrive.

Chapter 3: Nexting and Prospecting

Tali Sharot,
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain
. New York: Pantheon, 2011. A neuroscientist’s lively inside-the-brain view of why most people are optimistic or hopeful about life.

Chapter 4: Hope Matters

Studs Terkel,
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
. New York: New Press, 2003. A collection of interviews that shows why hope matters in the lives of all people, especially those facing adversity.

Chapter 5: How Investing in the Future Pays Off Today

Roy Baumeister and John Tierney,
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength.
New York: Penguin Books, 2011. A new way to look at our powers of self-control, including many illuminating real-life examples as well as practical, research-based strategies for resisting temptation and reaching our most important goals.

Chapter 6: The Future Is Ours to See

Jacqueline Edelberg and Susan Kurland,
How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance.
New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. The complete inspiring story, including a detailed how-to, many cautionary tales, and a toolkit for setting up an independent, not-for-profit fund-raising company to benefit your school.

Daniel Gilbert,
Stumbling on Happiness.
New York: Knopf, 2006. A tour of what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there.

Daniel Kahneman,
Thinking, Fast and Slow
. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011. A challenging, entertaining, and enlightening book that sums up the author’s Nobel Prize–winning research and offers many techniques for avoiding the mental glitches that get us into trouble.

Chapter 7: The Present Is Not What Limits Us

Carol Dweck,
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
. New York: Random House, 2006. Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success, but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset.

www.mindsetonline.com
. An overview of mindset applications for parents, teachers, and coaches. Includes valuable suggestions on how—and how not—to praise children.

www.mindsetworks.com
. Specifically for schools and educators. Includes an introduction to Brainology, a program that shows students how to grow their minds.

Chapter 8: The Past Is Not a Preview

Barbara Frederickson,
Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive.
New York: Crown Archetype, 2009. Frederickson offers concrete strategies for increasing positive emotions so that we gradually shift the ratio of positivity to negativity in our lives.

www.positivityratio.com/single.php
. An easy-to-take test you can complete and score online as often as you wish, enabling you to track progress toward more positivity.

Chapter 9: Futurecasting: Making Your Goals Come Alive

Omaha Young Writers Program,
In My Shoes: Teen Reflections on Hope and the Future.
Omaha, NE: WriteLife, 2011. A moving example of what can happen when adults ask teens what is going on in their lives, build trust, and then really listen. Written by two classes of inner-city high school seniors with the guidance of volunteer writing mentors from across their community.

http://dreamagain.principal.com/dreamcatcher/preregistered/home.html
. A free program that allows you to create a visual collage of the images that capture your life goals.

Chapter 10: Triggering Action: Putting Agency on Autopilot

Dan Ariely,
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.
Revised and expanded edition. New York: HarperCollins, 2009. A highly entertaining book that opens our eyes to all the ways we overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. It may even help you make better decisions about the future.

Robert Cialdini,
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
. Revised edition. New York: HarperBusiness, 2006. A now-classic book describing six universal principles of persuasion and showing how they can be used ethically to create personal and social change.

Charles Duhigg,
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business.
New York: Random House, 2012. Why do some people and companies struggle to change while others seem to remake themselves overnight? Through many revealing stories and scientific insights, this book shows you how to create the habits necessary to reach your goals.

Homer,
Odyssey
. Translated by Stanley Lombardo. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2000. This fast-paced, colloquial, accessible translation enables today’s readers to appreciate the wily Odysseus as a “hero of the mind.”