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Nov 2024
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2 Lessons To Build Real Gratitude That D...

Growth Mindset Psychology
About this episode

Burn the manifestation guide and step away from the affirmations. Here are some unusual but realistic ways to build happiness, wonder and gratitude for the world around you.


We all know we "should" build more gratitude if we want to be happier. You may have heard of gratitude journalling or even be practising it. Today we explore ideas that aren't spoken about but make a difference to your baseline enjoyment of life.


Some themes we highlight:

  • The recurring problem with goals
  • Fighting the natural focus on flaws
  • Building a polymathic curiosity
  • Raising our baseline everyday gratitude
  • Zero affirmations


Whether you are highly sceptical of the positive or spiritual aspects of gratitude or just fed up with the endless bad news. It can feel hard to feel grateful when things seem so overwhelmingly difficult but this episode will teach you two ways to fight our focus on flaws and see reality with greater clarity.



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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Gratitude

01:35 Common Problems with Gratitude

04:12 Recurring theme - great achievements will come with problems

07:05 Planning for Problems

08:46 Gratitude in Relationships

09:31 Break Time

09:40 Contextualizing Gratitude and Building Curiousity

12:42 Appreciating Modern Innovations

13:18 Resources for Building Gratitude

16:01 Recap - Choose to see the positive side of things

17:58 Next Week's Episode

18:06 Outro

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