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5 ways to cultivate hope when you don’t have any

There’s a sense, once a whisper, that’s growing louder every day. Glaciers are melting, children are being slaughtered, hatred runs rampant. Sometimes it feels like the world’s approaching a nadir. Or like you are.

The antidote to any despair might be hope, experts say. It’s one of the most powerful—and essential—human mindsets, and possible to achieve even when it feels out of reach.

“Hope is a way of thinking,” says Chan Hellman, founding director of the Hope

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