3 k is about right , I ' ve seen a lot that is cheaper though . <| sep |> lol you make it sound so much more amazing than it actually is <| sep |> An excerpt from a talk by hope researcher , Shane LopeztLblCKKA 2 h 4 The power of social networks not just the online ones can help you spread those things to your community . Book Connected The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our L i v e s S u r p r i s i n g N e t w o rksFriendsEverythingdptel by Nicholas A . Christakis Shane shows an image of 4 penguins walking in a line and says positive emotions move from one person to the next before they fizzle out . If you ' re a leader , you ' re the lead pinguin . How you behave today will affect the next penguin . How that penguin behaves because they ' ve been infected by your hope will affect another personmaybe someone you don ' t even know . And then that person will affect another person , before it fizzles out . The same is true about hopelessness . You can transfer it in the same waya ripple effectif you ' re not careful . So leaders have a responsibility . At Gallup they identify the most hopeful people in an organisation and power them to be hopeful beacons . Two years ago they put out a call to find hopeful teachers . The superintendents said it didn ' t take them a second to figure it out . Think of who ' s the most hopeful person in your town . Sad Australian fact most people don ' t know the people in their own . We ' re isolated from our community members . Doesn ' t have to be The most hopeful teacher in America Mary HawkinsJones . She can transform an entire school district all by herself . When she was hired , she said the children will remember me this year . You can do this for your school , community , town , workplace , government , children in your community . You can say to them it ' s your responsibility to spread hope to the 3 rd degree the ripple effect mentioned above . The three things hopeful leaders need to do to make hope happen in your community Create and sustain excitement about the future . You need exciting sometimes big goals . Knock down existing obstacles to goals , and don ' t put up new ones . Reestablish goalsregoalwhen the circumstances demand it . Hope matters . Hope is a choice . Hope can be learned . Hope is contagious . thebestofyou . quora . com % E 2 % 80 % 98 TheImportanceofHope % E 2 % 80 % 99 withGallup % E 2 % 80 % 99 sShaneLopez % E 2 % 80 % 93 a s u m m a r y o f h o p e r e s e a r c h i n f o reignaidschoolsworkplaces ? sridhBPt