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Nov 2024
42m 19s

Gratitude as a Gateway to Liberation: T...

Jonathan Foust
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This talk explores how tapping into gratitude can truly transform your life.

You’ll learn how you can overcome your innate instinct toward self-centeredness and self-preservation and how you can change this in a way that can cultivate a greater sense of connectedness, resourcefulness and if nothing else, seriously stimulate your pre-frontal cortex.

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