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Why Gratitude Makes Us Happy

Dr. Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology at Yale University, explores how we can Grow in Happiness.

One key to happiness? Appreciating the good in our lives that we may have started to take for granted.

Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology at Yale University, explains how gratitude can prevent hedonic adaptation and promote happiness in this lecture.

Did any of Dr. Santos’s lecture feel especially meaningful to you? What’s something important to you that you might take for granted?
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