A short YouTube talk by Brian Johnson (Dec 27, 2022) about the science of hope and the central role of belief. Johnson summarizes scholarly work on hope (three components: inspiring goal/vision, agency, and pathways), encourages readers to visualize an energizing future across feeling, work, and relationships, and promotes the Heroic Coach Class 14 program as a way to make 2023 transformational.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. In our last couple plus ones, we hung out with the kids and took a trip to Whole Foods and the circus and then went old school to chat about some Orison sweat. Martin Wisdom. The big idea from that last plus one was simple. Believe you will do what you were made to do. Which begged the question, what are you here to do? Hero, I believe in you. And that is linked to a great song I think you might enjoy. Today. I want to pull that thread and chat about the importance of belief and my thinking on the science of hope. Hope it does a hero good. We've often discussed the fact that as Rick Schneider see notes on the psychology of hope and his Shane Lopez see notes on his Making Hope Happen tell us Hope has has three core components. This is a science of hope. First, you need to have a vision for an inspiring future. You need an inspiring goal. You need to believe your future will be better than your current reality. If you don't believe your future will be better than your current reality, you are literally hopeless. Then you need to have what scientists call agency, a sense that you can make that vision for a better future a reality. Then you need a plan to make that desired future state a reality. You need a pathway, as the HOPE scholars put it. And you need to have a willingness to create new pathways when the first plan inevitably doesn't quite work out. To recap, we need an inspiring goal, a sense of agency and pathways. Perfect. And if you don't believe you can create a better future, you'll never even dare to dream of that better future. Therefore, belief in yourself and your ability to do what you are here to do is actually arguably the most important thing. So back to you. When you look forward into your future, what do you see? What fires you up? Let's go Big three on it. How do you look and feel? Energy wise? What are you creating? Work wise. And how are you connecting love wise? See it, know you can create it. Then make a plan to do exactly that. Not someday. Today. Day one. All in. Let's go hero. And by the way, as you've probably noticed, we're approaching the end of the year. You want to make 2023 the greatest year of your life? Join us in Heroic Coach Class 14. We guarantee you that if you show up and do the work, we'll fundamentally and permanently change your life. Let's go. Half the people who do that program are coaches or aspiring coaches. The other half are just people who want to become the best, most heroic version of themselves. Check it out. Linked here. Let's go.
