Gratitude helps you make and
keep more friends. Gratitude
helps us perceive kindness.
And since it’s natural to want
to reciprocate kindness when
we receive it, we’re naturally
kinder beings if we refine the
skill to recognize kindness.
A study published in 2014 by
Emotion showed that thanking
a new acquaintance made the
more likely to pursue on ongoing
relationship.
Gratitude improves optimism.
If we perceive our current life
to have more good, we will also
believe our future life will have
more good. It’s that simple. So
much of what determines our
next steps in life is our current
perspective. Seeing the good over
the bad can mean the difference
between seeing opportunities
and missing them.
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