Gratitude Through Hard Times: Finding Positive Benefits Through Our Darkest Hours

If you could give credit or thanks to one person in your life, that you don’t give enough credit or thanks to, who would that be?

If they’re living, do you still talk to them? Do you consider your relationship with

What’s one word or phrase that honestly describes how you feel right now?

Giving gratitude is the act of acknowledging that you’ve received some sort of benefit in your life from someone else. That acknowledgement reinforces the fact that you didn’t get here alone, and shifts the focus to the people who have helped you along the way.

Post-Traumatic Growth

There were many factors that led to my NSSI in late 2021, but I know for certain that a lack of flow was among them. At the time of my episode, I just couldn’t reach that challenge-skills sweet spot. There were some parts of my life that were too challenging, like 7:47’s extraordinarily rapid growth and the fact that I’d taken on way too many proje

The first time you come, you come alone. The second time you come, you can bring a friend. After

the deep poverty of the soul that afflicts the wealthy—and that the poverty of the soul in America was deeper than any poverty she had seen anywhere else on Earth. I had architected a life of scarcity and competition, rather than one of joy and abundance, and found myself in the depths of soul poverty as a result. My friend Scott said that

has explored the connection between gratitude and flow. In The Art of the Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer, he writes that there appears to be a strong link between gratitude and a high-flow lifestyle. To understand the power of what he learned, you’ve got to understand a bit of evolutionary biology. Kotler references an experiment run at the