Hope a powerful tool for achievers.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: March 23, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ University of Kansas psychologist Rick Snyder has delved into many measures of success in life, and wherever he has looked, he has found a single constant.

Whether it's academic achievement, athletic accomplishment, emotional health or the ability to cope with illness and other hardship, the people who do best are not necessarily the smartest, the richest or the most gifted.

They are the people who have the greatest hope.

``It's a powerful force in our lives,'' Snyder said, ``and I sort of stumbled on it.''

Snyder, 55, has researched hope for ...

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