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An Antidote to Dissatisfaction
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Everybody is familiar with the feeling
that things are not as they should be.
That you're not successful enough,
your relationship's not satisfying enough,
that you don't have the things you crave.
A chronic dissatisfaction
that makes you look outwards with envy
and inwards with disappointment.
Pop culture, advertising, and
social media make this worse
by reminding you that aiming for anything
less than your dream job is failure,
you need to have great
experiences constantly,
be conventionally attractive,
have a lot of friends,
and find your soulmate,
and that others
have all of these things
and are truly happy.
And, of course, a vast array of
self-improvement products
implies that it's all your fault for
not working hard enough on yourself.
In the last two decades,
researchers have been starting
to investigate how we can
counteract these impulses.
The field of positive psychology emerged,
the study of what makes life worth living,
while cognitive behavioral therapy
was developed to change negative feelings.
Scientists began to ask
"Why are some people happier
and more satisfied than others?"
"And are there ways to apply what
they're doing right to the rest of us?"
In this video, we want to talk about
one of the strongest predictors of
how happy people are,
how easily they make friends,
and how good they are at
dealing with hardship.
An antidote to dissatisfaction, so to speak:
Gratitude.
While gratitude may sound like another
self-improvement trend,
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