In a moment of natural gratitude, with a heart full of awe, a problem I had been carrying with me disappeared. Dissolved in a moment. That got me thinking about how most of us view gratitude as a beautiful, sweet gesture, and yet don’t realized how powerful it really is. Join me today as I interview Jeremy Adam Smith of the Greater Good Science Center. At GGSC, scientists have begun to chart a course of research aimed at understanding gratitude and the circumstances in which it flourishes or diminishes. They’re finding that people who practice gratitude consistently report a host of benefits:
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