8 Science-Backed Ways to Increase Your Hope

It’s a skill we need right now

Benjamin Hardy, PhD
Forge
Published in
6 min readJul 27, 2020

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Especially in a time of social unrest, widespread unemployment, and a global pandemic, the advice to “stay hopeful!” might make you groan. But in getting through hard times, hope may be more powerful than we realize.

In his book Making Hope Happen, the psychologist Shane Lopez writes that in a crisis, less-hopeful…

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Benjamin Hardy, PhD
Forge
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