Hope

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When it comes to positive emotions, many people make a morphological mistake.
They infer that positive emotions equate to good emotions, desirable scenarios, and generally enjoyable conditions.
This mistake is the result of confusing correlation with causation alongside binary-driven logic.


Hope, as a positive emotion, often occurs in non-positive scenarios.
The experience of hope can precede a powerful negative emotion: despair.
Hope is a balance of opposites: a combination of worry for what may be while coveting the notion that it might be better.


Hope holds significant utilitarian value.
It increases your aptitude for inventiveness.
Hope also plays a role in developing resilience.


While resilience is a complex term, the correlation between it and hope is simple.
Hope increases resilience.
Hope epitomizes the broaden and build theory of positive emotions.


The world of business often uses the cliché, “hope is not a strategy.”
This statement misses the mark and undervalues the role of inventiveness.
Hope is the prerequisite to creating a strategy.



The Kitty in the Coffee,
-Morning Cup


Interest sparked around the 10 positive emotions?
This is week 6 of a dive into each; start from the beginning here.

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