Brené Brown.
She’s such a good storyteller, but she also is such a researcher. She said that the number one thing when people are having extreme hardships in their lives - from losing a child to a house burning down to losing a high-figure job - she discovered with her research was that the people who moved through the quickest are the ones that are focused on gratitude. What they were still grateful for. “Maybe my house burned down, but I’m alive.” That simplistic of a thing, that was the number one thing. And she was blown away that it was gratitude.
Michael Steger, I’ve looked at his research. You can have twins where one twin would be more predisposed to be grateful, and the other one is more negative, having a more negative connotation. It’s just kind of how you’re hardwired. It’s almost like you’re working out, you have to work out that gratitude muscle. And I always say there’s this cumulative impact if you always go to gratitude first, or always go to “How can I move out of this situation in a positive way?”
If you breathe and have a moment of gratitude, you’re going to feel pretty good pretty quickly.
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