Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others (40 page)

LSAT,
55
–56,
111

Luck, Jo,
101
–2,
104

MacFarlane, John,
120

Magerl, Chuck,
47
–50

Magnuson-Stessman, Jennifer,
197
–98

Markman, Art,
146

Matau Primary School,
103

McClung, Alisha,
159
–60

McCollum, Lonnie,
181

McDonald’s,
208
–9

McGonigal, Jane,
213
–14

McNutt, Dr. Theodore,
3
–5,
9

Media,
16
,
66
,
204

“plan for your future” messages,
16

Meehl, Paul,
108

Meehl’s maxim,
108
–9

Memory,
37
,
41
–43,
95

“autobiographical,”
42

Mental fast food, beware of,
74
–75

Messages that neutralize hope,
100
–101

Mexico,
203
–4

Michigan,
65
–67

Middle school,
65
–67,
98
,
99
,
111
,
190
,
191
,
192
,
197

Midwest Transplant Network,
29

Military,
82
,
108
,
109
–10

Mindset,
98
–101

Mirror neurons,
45

Missouri,
181

Modeling hope,
205
–7

Money,
65
,
66
,
83
,
96
–97,
108
,
119
,
133
–34,
145
,
159
–60,
165
–66

Mortality,
59
–61

Motivation,
98
,
99

MTV,
154

Museum of Unnatural History, Washington, D.C.,
169

Music,
120
–21,
154
–56

Nationwide Insurance,
182
–83

Naughtin, Rose,
26
–30,
213

Nebraska,
51
,
193

Negative messages,
100
–101,
113

Negative thinking,
69
,
70
,
84
–85,
100
–101,
112
,
113
,
129

undermining hope and,
84
–85

Netherlands,
143
–44

Nettelhorst School Chicago,
86
–91,
137

Networking,
12
,
175
–215

hope,
203
–15

leading with hope,
177
–88

modeling hope,
205
–7

providing hope through support,
208
–13

Super-Empowered, Hopeful Individual (SEHI),
213
–14

teaching hope,
189
–201

Neutralizers, hope,
100
–101,
113

Nexting,
33
–34

New York City,
99
,
171
,
172

New York Times,
113
,
211

New York University,
152

Stern School of Business,
139

New Zealand,
129

9/11 terrorist attacks,
171

Norton, Ed,
171

Nothing But Nets,
172

Obama, Barack,
194

Oberst, Nancy,
199
–200

Obstacles, knocking down,
184
–85

Odyssey
(Homer),
149
–51,
207

Oettingen, Gabriele,
68
,
70
,
73

Ohio,
119

Olympics,
127
,
128
,
137

Omaha,
134
,
192
,
193
,
199
,
206
,
212

Omaha Children’s Museum,
192

Omaha Young Writers Program,
134
–35

Open mind,
114

Operation HOPE,
165

Oprah Winfrey Foundation,
103

Optimism,
11
,
18
,
37
–38,
61
,
65
,
70
–72,
129
–30,
183

“Optimism bias,”
37
,
129
–30

Oregon,
208

Organ donation,
27
,
28
,
29

Overconfidence,
82
–83

Oyserman, Daphna,
65
,
190
,
192

Pain,
22
–23,
93
–94,
163

hope and,
22
–23,
57
–58

management,
163

Paris,
118
,
119

Pasquinucci, Susan,
210

Passion,
21

Past,
37
,
41
–42

moving past fear,
115
–16

not a preview,
107
–22

open mind and,
114

as predictor of future behavior,
108
–10

Pathways,
12
,
25
,
30
,
75
,
91
,
104
,
121
,
159
–73

borrowing hope,
169
–73

built from strengths,
167
–68

discovering new,
159
–73

financial,
165
–66

generating alternative,
161
–63

turning work into play,
167
–69

willpower and,
160
–61

Pennsylvania,
69
,
184
–85,
186
,
194

Pessimism,
69
,
70
,
84
–85,
100
–101,
129

undermining hope and,
84
–85

Peterson, Suzanne,
44
,
53
–54

Philadelphia,
69
,
186
,
194

Plan B,
122

Play, turning work into,
167
–69

Politics,
80
–81,
146

Pop-up stores,
119

Portugal,
54
,
96

Positive psychology,
108
–9,
110

Positive thinking,
18
,
69
–72,
73
,
114
,
129
–30,
131
,
183

downside of,
70
–75

Poverty,
101
–3,
165
,
210
,
211

Powell, Colin,
109
–10

Predicting the future,
81
–83

past behavior and,
108
–10

Prefrontal cortex,
43
–44,
112

Preliving,
38
,
42

Present,
25
,
36

connecting future to,
63
–75

is not what limits us,
93
–105

Principal Financial Group,
133
,
134

Procter & Gamble,
209

Productivity,
51
–56

hope and,
51
–56

increasing,
53
–56

showing up,
51
–53

Project-based learning,
194
–95

Prospection pipeline,
41
–45

Psychology of Hope, The
(Snyder),
6

Pursuit,
119

Quinn, Eva,
133
–34

Race,
97
,
109

Rasmussen, Steve,
182
–83

Reality Is Broken
(McGonigal),
213
–14

Reams, Seth,
208

Recession,
5
,
12
,
138
,
159
,
182
,
208

Rego, Armenio,
96

Regoaling,
185
–88

Rejection,
113

Religion,
20
,
115

Reliving,
37
–38

Retirement,
126
,
145

Rhapsody,
120

Richards, Ann,
80
–81

Right risks,
117
–21

Ripples of hope,
217

Risks,
117

right,
117
–21

Ronald McDonald House,
209

Roscoe Park Eight,
86
–91,
137

Rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC),
43

ROTC,
109
–10

Roth, David Lee,
155

Sabido, Miguel,
203
,
204

Salience,
132
–33

San Francisco,
167
–69

SAT,
111

Save the Children,
103

Scales, hope,
30
–32,
218
–20

Schaps, Harvey,
155
–56

Scholl, Sarah,
127
–29

Schools.
See
Education

Science,
194
–95

Sebelius, Kathleen,
181

Seinfeld, Jerry,
139

Self-control,
68

Seligman, Martin,
109
,
116

Sex,
58
,
61

Sharot, Tali,
37

Showing up,
51
–53

Signs,
147

Silicon Valley,
108

Simplemente María (Simply Maria),
204

Sirius,
120

Slow Responder,
156

Smoking,
58
,
59
,
60

Snyder, Rick,
6
,
17
–18,
24
,
57
–58,
109
,
161
,
162

Soap operas,
203
–4

Sonos,
120
–21

Sources of hope, tapping the,
104
–5

Spelman College,
159
–60

Sports,
18
,
67
,
89
,
127
,
128

SportsCenter,
108

Spotify,
120

Standardized tests,
111

Starfish Initiative,
160

Start-ups, right-risk,
118
–21

Stern, Stephen,
59
–60,
109

StickK.com
,
150

Stock market,
83
,
108

Storytelling,
36
–38,
183

Strengths,
131
–33

building pathways from,
167
–68

Stress,
57
,
68
,
99
,
117

Success,
94
,
95
,
117
,
167

right risks and,
117
–21

Suicide,
4
–6,
7
,
15
,
60

SuperBetter,
214

Super-Empowered, Hopeful Individual (SEHI),
213
–14

Superstruct,
213

Support, providing hope through,
208
–13

Support team,
151

Suze Orman Show, The,
108

Sweet spot of hope,
84
–85,
97
,
117
–21

right risks in,
117
–21

Switzerland,
54

Taco trucks,
118

Talent,
97

Tatum, Beverly,
159
–60

Teachers,
16
,
89
,
166
–67,
203

teaching hope to the next generation,
189
–201

See also
Education

TeamMates Mentoring Program,
193

Technology,
107
,
108
,
120
,
194
–95,
213

Test-driving the future,
135
–36

Texas,
59
,
60
,
80
–81

Then and now, contrasting,
137
–39

Thinking, Fast and Slow
(Kahneman),
82

Thoughts,
15
–22,
24

about the future,
3
–75

brain evolution,
35
–36,
42

dieting the,
67
–70

“dream job” experiment,
40
,
42
,
43
,
44

feeling hopeful and,
19
–22

wishful,
70
–71

See also
Brain

Tide,
209
–10

TimeBanks.org,
171

Time sensitivity,
35
–36

Time travel,
34
–36,
125
–26,
133
–39

Tornadoes,
180
–81,
209
,
214

Trent, Tererai,
101
–4,
129
,
210

Trucks, food,
118
–19

Tversky, Amos,
82

Tyson, Mike,
160

Unconscious,
82
,
146

University of Louisiana-Lafayette,
136
,
138

Upward Bound,
195

Van Bedoff, Jos,
143
–44

Van Halen,
154
–56

Van Halen, Eddie,
155

Ven Conmigo (Come With Me),
203
–4

Vermont,
187

Veterans,
3
–5,
11
,
95

Violence,
164
–65

Wagner, Nicole,
87
–91

Wall Street,
83

Weight loss,
67
–70

Well-being,
56
–57,
147
–48

West Nile virus,
112