Dr. Julia Garcia
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When you think of the absence of hope, you realize in that moment how powerful hope is because it doesn't solve our problems magically, but it activates the parts of our minds that help us solve them.
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It's like there's a way to get hopeless.
There's things that happen.
Sometimes people try and steal our hope, right?
Like there are things that happen over time.
And this compounds, I call these hope blocks.
And these things compound over time.
They can be external.
They could be internal.
And when they compound, what happens is it blocks our way to have hope again.
And so it doesn't really discriminate.
It could be any time, unplanned.
You could just have this feeling of hopelessness.
And if we don't have a process to navigate out of it, then that's when it can become concerning.
And that's a power.
And that is part of the cognitive science of hope.
It's building the practice of having hope.