Gratitude

Gratitude helps us overcome our hard-wired negativity bias—our tendency to focus on negative events rather than positive ones. Earlier in human history, negativity bias had an important survival function. Perceiving a threat more strongly than a benign encounter could have been the difference between life and death. But today negativity bias just makes us unhappy and anxious. It also explains why it takes so much intentionality to practice gratitude.

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