The main players in the science of does being thankful for the life you have actually make you happier are Dr. Blair Justice, professor of psychology at the University of Texas School of Public Health and Read Justice, who is a psychologist in Houston. They wrote an article called Gratefulology that's like 10 years old but they're still doing something right. The two were huge advocates for gratitude in general; there were books on it.
A (perhaps) much-needed refresher course on last year's gratitude minisode. As a friend of a friend's hairdresser once said: "It's hard to be hateful with a plateful of grateful." Is it? In this pre-holidays quickie episode, Alie is grumpy as hell and decides to research the neuroscience of gratitude. Does it work? Who's studying it? Does she need to buy a journal? Find out how jotting down things you don't hate on the back of a receipt or opening a secret Twitter account may be worth more than whatever you get in your office Secret Santa exchange.
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