𝙃𝙤𝙥𝙚: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡-𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨

We have all heard phrases like "hope is the last thing to be lost" or "while there is life there is hope", and we also know the famous Pandora's box, which when it was opened all evils spread on earth, but in the bottom of the box was hope. In fact, hope is fundamental for the human being, it is the engine that drives us to get what we want and to keep us excited about life. So much so, that its lack leads to depression.

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Hope has been approached and conceptualized from different areas: philosophy, theology, etc., and different elements have been given in its conceptualization. From psychology, hope has been defined as an emotion, and also as a mental and motivational state. Even more recently, from positive psychology as a strength of character or positive personality trait.

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Hope, according to this model, is a cognitive trait, a mentality that allows us to set goals in our lives (professional, personal, health, etc.); together with the ability to establish the routes or steps to achieve these objectives (route-generating thinking) and the ability to maintain motivating thinking (agency thinking) that allows me to start and persist in achieving them despite obstacles and difficulties in reaching them.

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Hope is more necessary the more important the goal is for the person and the more difficult it is to achieve. The objectives have to be personal, that is, they have to be truly intrinsic that the person really wants, not imposed objectives or that the person believes that he or she is obliged to fulfill, and also, they have to be realistic.