September 1, 2023
Hope Makes All the Difference!
By Michael C. Mack Hope makes all the difference! That’s the conclusion psychologists and social scientists have come to after years of research. In his best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman reported on what other researchers had discovered: “that hope was a better predictor of [students’] . . . grades than were their scores on the SAT, a test supposedly able to predict how students will fare in college (and highly correlated to IQ).” Hope, he says, “plays a surprisingly potent role in life, offering an advantage in realms as diverse as school achievement and bearing up in onerous jobs.”
