The Hope Effect: The Science of Healing, Achieving, and Breaking Through

Forty percent of American teenagers report persistent feelings of hopelessness. Nearly 80 percent of Americans do not expect their children to have a better life than they did. We are living through a crisis of hopelessness. But what if hope is not a vague feeling or wishful thinking at all? What if it is a measurable, trainable skill—one backed by decades of scientific evidence?

In THE HOPE EFFECT, physician-scientists Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli, authors of WONDER DRUG, synthes...