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B1 Intermedio Inglés 14:31 Educational

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

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00:12

There is something you know about me,

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something very personal,

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and there is something I know about every one of you

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and that's very central to your concerns.

00:28

There is something that we know

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about everyone we meet anywhere in the world, on the street,

00:37

that is the very mainspring of whatever they do

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and whatever they put up with.

00:46

And that is that all of us want to be happy.

00:52

In this, we are all together.

00:55

How we imagine our happiness, that differs from one another,

01:00

but it's already a lot that we have all in common,

01:05

that we want to be happy.

01:09

Now my topic is gratefulness.

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What is the connection between happiness and gratefulness?

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Many people would say, well, that's very easy.

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When you are happy, you are grateful.

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But think again.

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Is it really the happy people that are grateful?

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We all know quite a number of people

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who have everything that it would take to be happy,

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and they are not happy,

01:44

because they want something else or they want more of the same.

01:50

And we all know people who have lots of misfortune,

01:57

misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have,

02:00

and they are deeply happy.

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They radiate happiness. You are surprised.

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Why? Because they are grateful.

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So it is not happiness that makes us grateful.

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It's gratefulness that makes us happy.

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If you think it's happiness that makes you grateful,

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think again.

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It's gratefulness that makes you happy.

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Now, we can ask,

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what do we really mean by gratefulness?

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And how does it work?

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I appeal to your own experience.

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We all know from experience how it goes.

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We experience something that's valuable to us.

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Something is given to us that's valuable to us.

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And it's really given.

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These two things have to come together.

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It has to be something valuable, and it's a real gift.

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You haven't bought it. You haven't earned it.

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You haven't traded it in. You haven't worked for it.

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It's just given to you.

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And when these two things come together,

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something that's really valuable to me and I realize it's freely given,

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then gratefulness spontaneously rises in my heart,

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