NOTICE/LEARN: Hope

This recording is Obama talking about hope and how important it is to absorb hardship that we can still insist we will prevail. This is when there's a depth to hope, when it's hard won.

After you've listened to the interview, bring to mind some of your own struggles and how getting through them has impacted on your hope for the future. What does this feel like?

"Hopeful people experience better general health, including a longer lifespan and lower rates of cardiovascular disease, as well as greater achievement, increased determination and lower rates of depression. Hopeful thinking... has also been associated with higher pain tolerance and lower levels of depression in the chronically ill. Hope, then, acts as a protective mechanism while hopelessness can lead to physical, psychosocial and spiritual deficits."

https://www.wellbeing.com.au/mind-spirit/mind/holding-on-to-hope.html