Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others (39 page)

826 National,
167
–69

Eisenhower VA Medical Center, Leavenworth, Kansas,
3
–5,
11

Elderly,
187

spending time with,
140
–41

Electroencephalography (EEG),
41
,
44

Elementary school,
86
–91,
103
,
111
,
192
–93,
199
–200

Emotions,
19
–22,
24
,
37
–38,
40
,
43

brain and,
40
–45

forecasting,
80
–81

open-mindedness and,
114

positive,
18
,
56
–57,
69
–72,
114
,
129
–30,
131
,
183

sorting through,
43

thinking and feeling hopeful,
19
–22

See also specific emotions

Energy of hope,
73
–74,
97

Entitlement,
97

Entrepreneurism,
47
–50,
107
,
118
–21

elements of hope and,
121

right risks,
118
–21

Escobar, Charity,
203

Ethnicity,
60
,
61
,
97

Euphoria,
20
,
21

EVOKE,
213

Evolution,
35
–37,
42

Excuse Maker,
156

Exercise,
58
,
59
,
67
,
153

Experienced guides,
137

Failure,
98
,
107
,
117

fear of,
107
–8,
121

Faith,
20
,
79

Family,
115
,
196
,
198

Fantasies,
17
,
69
,
70
,
73

Future Day,
134
–35

Fantastic Future Me,
192
–93

Fear,
21
,
23
,
28
,
107
,
114
,
165

facing down,
163
–64

of failure,
107
–8,
121

hope vs.,
111
–13

moving past,
115
–16

Feelings.
See
Emotions

Feldman, David,
57

Fetterman, John,
184
–85

Feudtner, Chris,
186

“Fight, flight, or freeze,”
112

Finance,
83
,
108
,
133
–34,
165
–66

Five years ago, and five years from now,
91
–92

Flying, fear of,
163
–64

Food,
58
,
67
–70,
96
,
147
,
172
,
185

dieting,
67
–70,
154

right-risk start-ups,
118
–19

trucks,
118
–19

Forecasting feelings,
80
–81

Fowler, Stephen,
205

France,
36
,
118
,
119

Frederick, Kristin,
118
–19

Frederickson, Barbara,
114
,
183

Freedom,
114

Free State Brewery,
48
–50

Freud, Sigmund,
108
–9

Friends,
115
,
205

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI),
41

Future,
11
,
15
–19,
22
,
25
,
36

choosing a better tomorrow,
79
–122

choosing hope,
22
–24

connecting present to,
63
–75

creating excitement about the,
179
–83

death and,
38
–39

expecting a better,
129
–30

forecasting feelings,
80
–81

goals and,
125
–41

guessing the,
81
–83

nexting,
33
–34

past behavior as predictor of,
108
–10

picture yourself in,
133
–34

say hello to your future self,
139
–41

seeing the,
79
–92

simulating the,
41
–42

taking a stake in,
85
–86

test-driving the,
135
–36

that draws you forward,
127
–30

thinking about,
3
–75

time travel,
34
–36,
125
–26,
133
–39

Future Day Fantasy,
134
–35

Gallagher, Matt,
56

Gallup,
63
–64,
129
,
147
,
177
,
178
,
180
,
190
,
192
,
193
,
196

Gibson, Charlie,
57
,
58

Gift of Life,
29

Gilbert, Daniel,
80
–81

Glucose,
68

Goals,
12
,
19
,
24
,
25
,
26
,
30
,
43
,
49
,
75
,
79
,
90
,
96
,
98
,
102
,
103
,
112
,
121
,
122
,
125
–41,
214

Big List,
87
–92

contagion,
146
–48

creating,
130
–31

entrepreneurial,
47
–50,
107
,
118
–21

precommit to hopeful actions,
148
–51

regoaling,
185
–88

salient,
132
–33

say hello to your future self,
139
–41

strengths and,
131
–33

test-driving the future,
135
–36

time travel and,
133
–39

when/where plans,
151
–54

Gollwitzer, Peter,
152
,
153

Good Morning America,
57
–58,
162

Google Ventures,
107

Great Britain,
55
,
82

Greece,
46
,
149

Groopman, Jerome,
22
–24,
43

Grow, desire to,
101
–4

Guessing the future,
81
–83

Guided imagery,
162
,
163

Guides, experienced,
137

Habitat for Humanity,
102
,
104

Haiti,
129
,
209

Happiness,
56
–57,
86
,
94
,
114

hope and,
56
–57

Hauger, Simon,
194

Hawaii,
163

Head-Heart-Holy test,
19
–20

Health,
56
–59,
93
,
198
,
199
,
205

care,
96
,
149

dieting,
67
–70

good,
57
–59

hope and,
56
–59

wishful thinking and,
71

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A
(Eggers),
167

Heart disease,
27
–30,
58
,
61

Heifer International,
101
–2,
104
,
210

Hershfield, Hal,
139
–40

High school,
66
,
99
,
100
,
111
,
134
–35,
161
–62,
189
–90,
192
,
194
–96,
199
,
212

Hill, Azeem,
194

Hill, Jonah,
171
–72

Hippocampus,
42
,
43

Hispanics,
97

History, and hope,
110
–11

Homer,
149
–51,
207

Homo erectus,
35

Homo neanderthalensis,
35

Homo sapiens,
35
–36

Hope,
3
–13

action and,
63
–75,
143
–57

agency and,
143
–57

borrowing,
169
–73

brain and,
40
–45

choosing,
22
–24

choosing a better tomorrow,
79
–122

connecting present to future and,
63
–75

core beliefs and,
17
–19

cost of,
96
–97

death and,
59
–61

energy of,
73
–74

entrepreneurism,
47
–50,
107
,
118
–21

fear vs.,
111
–13

finding hope in our lives,
26
–30

fullness and,
45
–46

goals and,
125
–41

health and,
56
–59

history and,
110
–11

intelligence and,
93
–96

leading with,
177
–88

looking for,
15
–32

modeling hope,
205
–7

networking,
175
–215

neutralizers,
100
–101,
113

pathways and,
159
–73

productivity and,
51
–56

providing through support,
208
–13

ripples of,
217

scales,
30
–32,
218
–20

showing up and,
51
–53

spreading,
45
,
188

sweet spot of,
84
–85,
97
,
117
–21

tapping sources of,
104
–5

teaching to the next generation,
189
–201

test,
30
–32

thinking about the future and,
3
–75

thinking and feeling,
19
–22

well-being and,
56
–57

See also
Hope strategies

Hope Camera Project,
161
–62,
197
–98

Hopelessness,
6
,
59

mortality and,
59
–61

Hope strategies,
24
–26,
123
–73

agency,
25
,
30
,
75
,
91
,
104
,
121
,
143
–57

goals,
24
,
25
,
30
,
75
,
90
,
103
,
121
,
125
–41

pathways,
25
,
30
,
75
,
91
,
104
,
121
,
159
–73

How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance
(Edelberg and Kurland),
90

Humanitarian aid,
208
–14

Hurricanes,
209
–10

Ifs, planning for,
159
–73

Iliad
(Homer),
149

Illinois,
86
–91

Illiteracy,
101

Imagination,
35
–36,
42

Income,
65
,
66
,
96

In My Shoes: Teen Reflections on Hope and the Future,
134

Intelligence,
10
,
11
,
86
,
93
–96,
97
,
98
,
101

hope and,
93
–96

mindset,
98
–101

Internet,
120
,
172

Iowa,
193

IQ,
10
,
11
,
95
,
97
,
98

Ireland,
129

Israel,
82
,
108

It Worked for Me
(Powell),
109

James, LeBron,
66

Jay-Z,
66

Job.
See
Work

Joe’s Drive-In,
118

Jones, Yano,
206
–7,
212
–13

Journalism,
113

Joy,
114

Kahneman, Daniel,
81
–83,
108

Kansas,
3
–5,
11
,
47
–50,
180
–81,
214

Kennedy, Robert F.,
13
,
216

Kickstarter.com
,
173

Kidney failure,
4
–9,
39

King, Rodney,
164
–65

Kogi BBQ,
118

Korean War,
4

Kraus, Joe,
107

Kristof, Nicholas,
211

Kurland, Susan,
87
,
88
,
90
,
91

Leadership,
133
,
177
–88

creating excitement about the future,
179
–83

knocking down obstacles,
184
–85

regoaling,
185
–88

with hope,
177
–88

Learn, desire to,
101
–4

Lebanon,
129

Lewis, Sandy,
187
–88

Literacy,
204

Loads of Hope,
209
–10

Lombardo, Stan,
148
–49,
151

Lopez, Alli Rose,
134
–35,
198

Los Angeles,
118
,
164
–65

Louisiana,
37
,
45
,
136
–37

Louisiana State University,
136
,
138