WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?

WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?

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WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?
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Book Excerpt 📖 (*Exclusive!*): A Note on Hope

Book Excerpt 📖 (*Exclusive!*): A Note on Hope

What's your relationship with "hope"?

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Sep 06, 2024
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I’m sort of baffled by the common (Western?) social premise that hope is super important, or worse, the precursor to action. Unpopular opinion: I’m just not into hope — it feels pretty flimsy to me. Which makes it pretty awkward that the question I get asked in almost every interview is: What gives you hope? 😬

So in my forthcoming book What If We Get It…

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