HAPPINESS BOOK CLUB
ILLUSTRATION: LESLEY BUCKINGHAM
Have you ever met a happy person who doesn’t hold some hope for the future?’ asks Shane Lopez. He argues that how we feel about the future has an impact on how happy we are in the present. It connects where we want to be with what we do today. In that way, hope is dierent from wishful thinking. Wishes are just that – fantasies about what could be – whereas hope is more tangible, comprising a clearer picture of our goals, a sense of the pathways we can take to achieve them and the motivation to action them.