Being Hope
2026 Jack Ricchiuto, Nuance Works, Paperback 135p.
Many of us have arrived at the point where the way we think about hope is no longer working for us. It’s time to imagine a more durable hope without the requirement of optimism and constraint of doubt. This is the shift from hope that happens to us to hope that happens by us.
To be alive today is to live at the crossroads of having and losing hope.
The hopelessness in giving up is not a character flaw. It is designed into how institutional organizations operate. These include our educational, business, economic, religious, and civic organizations. While institutions exist to solve societal problems, they ironically manufacture hopelessness by turning doing so into a game of control and compliance.
We are not born hopeless. We are taught to be. Durable hope happens by us, not to us, and being hope is how we practice it. We compose each moment of hope whether or not we have the luxury of optimism.
Drawing from neuroscience, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology, author of forty books, Jack Ricchiuto outlines what being hope is, how institutions manufacture hopelessness, and how we can instead make being hope what makes us feel alive.
Being Hope makes a claim most books about hope never dare to make: hope is not something you have, like a possession that can be lost. It is something you can be — a way of existing, available to anyone, in any circumstance, regardless of how uncertain the future looks.
For anyone who has given up, anyone who finds hope elusive, anyone with the power to change the institutions that manufacture hopelessness, and anyone who wants to help build a world where hope is the radical norm, Being Hope offers something rarer than encouragement. It offers a way of being that cannot be defeated.
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Jack’s books include Collaborative Creativity, Accidental Conversations, Project Zen, Appreciative Leadership, Mountain Paths, Conscious Becoming, Instructions From The Cook, The Stories That Connect Us, Enchantment Of Casual Origins, The Joy Of Thriving, Ordinary Eyes, The Agile Canvas Field Guide, Abundant Possibilities, The Power Of Circles, Making Sense Of Time, Beyond Recipes, Focus, Smarter Together, Ideas, The Art Of Conversations, The Way Of Questions, The Growth Imperative, Simple Listening, Path, The Poetry of Human Emotion, The Language of Trusted Leaders, A Radical Kindness, Reimagining Communities, Textures, Perspectives, Together, Words In Flow, Ready & Able, Ready & Able Workbook, Flawless Planning, The Mindful Leader, The Improbable Grace of Presence, Engaged Curiosity, The Secret Life of Words, Being Hope
