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Hope is the emotional state which promotes the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Despair is the opposite of hope. Charles Snyder, Ph.D, one of the first developers of positive psychology, embellished upon the overlaying topic of "hope" relaying its subject matter within a psychological construct. Snyder created his "hope theory" while on sabbatical from the University of Kansas. Instead of finding evidence in a book in the library, he was inspired to observe people and interact with them. Through his observations, Snyder was able to determine his own definition of "hope"; "Hope is the sum of the mental willpower and waypower that you have for your goals" Snyder continues his definition with these 3 underlying concepts:

    Goals: "Goals are objects, experiences, or outcomes that we imagine and desire in our minds." Snyder determines that "the goals involving hope fall somewhere between an impossibility and a sure thing."

    Willpower: "Willpower is the driving force in hopeful thinking" (pg.9) Willpower draws on the perception of our desired goal as well as one's mental energy. It also depends on how well we understand our goal. Within psychotherapy, techniques are used to hone in on one's desires and wishes, on how to focus on our goals, on how to obtain or attain them, "...based on tacit knowledge."

    Waypower: "Waypower reflects the mental plans or road maps that guide hopeful thought" There are important versus less important goals that play a part in one's ability to plan through a goal, to map out a plan. Snyder says that hope is the "mental willpower and waypower for goals" Research has found that "persons with willpower thinking may not have waypower thoughts to their goals".Hope is the "feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best" or the act of "look[ing] forward to something with desire and reasonable confidence" or "feel[ing] that something desired may happen". Other definitions are "to cherish a desire with anticipation"; "to desire with expectation of obtainment"; or "to expect with confidence". In the English language the word can be used as either a noun or a verb, although hope as a concept has a similar meaning in either use.