What Gratitude Actually Is (and What It Has Nothing to Do With)

What Gratitude Actually Is

Gratitude has become one of the most overused words in personal development, and the overuse has cost it most of its meaning. What psychology actually defines as gratitude is not positive thinking, not contentment, and not a general disposition toward noticing the good in your life. It is a specific social emotion with two distinct … Read more

How to Stop Holding Grudges: Why Letting Go Is For You, Not Them

How To Stop Holding Grudges

The longest conversations I ever had with people about a single event in their lives were almost never about something they had done. They were about something done to them, kept alive through years of retelling until the retelling started to look less like memory and more like residence. Knowing how to stop holding grudges … Read more