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Apply the resilient practice of grati-osity

Apply the resilient practice of grati-osity

From the course: Resilience Skills to Navigate Disruption and Uncertainty

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Apply the resilient practice of grati-osity

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- The next practice, gratiosity, is my hybrid word for gratitude and generosity. When I interviewed hundreds of people about how they face their greatest moments of challenge, I found that first and foremost, the most resilient people were able to find gratitude even in the difficult moments. They weren't feeling particularly grateful in the moment when the challenge was happening, but afterwards, they would look on that experience in hindsight and say even though I wouldn't have chosen that, I can see the good in it. The gratitude part of the practice of gratiosity is not about false positivity or attempting to bypass difficult things. It's about teaching our mind to scan our environment for things we're grateful for, to look for what's going right, rather than surveying things around us to find what's going wrong. Without getting too brain sciencey on you, there's actually a structure known as the reticular activating system, or RAS for short, that plays a key role in attention…

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