#173: Gratitude Hack Workshop with Dhru Purohit

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Big Idea of the Week!

On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru Purohit shares a simple gratitude practice to help supercharge and accelerate our goals and dreams.

At the end of the year many of us set New Year's resolutions or an intention for how we want the next year to go. Dhru shares that he sees an interesting pattern as people start to list out their goals and dreams, priorities, habits, and the things they want to give attention and energy to. In the background, there’s this subtle sense of doubt, worry, fear, and hopelessness. Dhru believes this doubt comes from looking backwards and the way we perceive past experiences. Dr. Rick Hanson, a past podcast guest says, “The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones.” Our brains have a negativity bias, and it’s tied to our evolution. Our modern brain has evolved to prioritize bad experiences, and deprioritize positive ones.

Dhru shares three questions to ask ourselves before we set our goals, which he calls a palette cleanse, that will help us remember that no matter how we feel we did at the end of the month or year, we did the best we could. It also gives us an opportunity to remember how supported we were, and what we did to help other people.

Now matter how big or small…

1) What’s something tough or challenging that I did this month?

2) Who’s someone that did something for me?

3) What’s something nice I did for someone else?

When you remember these three things it changes your vibration for what you think is possible, and takes you out of negativity bias into positivity bias.

Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos who recently passed away said, “No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future.”

Also mentioned in today’s episode:

-https://www.rickhanson.net/take-in-the-good/

For more on Dhru Purohit, be sure to follow him on Instagram @dhrupurohit, on Facebook @dhruxpurohit, on Twitter @dhrupurohit, and on YouTube @dhrupurohit. You can also text Dhru at (302) 200-5643. Here is the instagram post that inspired today’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFDwzSyl8HU/.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Drupurot here, host of the Broken Brain Podcast with another big idea of the week
0:04.9	episode. Big idea of the week episodes are where I present a thought, a distinction, an idea
0:11.2	that's radically transformed my life for the better. And today we are going into three questions,
0:18.4	three questions that are part of what I hope will be a gratitude exercise that you can incorporate
0:24.8	into your life to supercharge and accelerate every single goal that you have. You know, at the end
0:33.6	of the year, people are setting New Year's resolutions or setting the intention for how they want
0:37.5	the next year to go. I firmly believe that you cannot do your best job of doing that if you don't
0:47.0	take the time to appreciate how far you've come. You know, there's an interesting pattern that I see
0:52.3	at the end of the year. And I'm sure we'll see it this year too with how challenging 2020 has been
0:58.7	as a year for so many people. The energy I see is that as people start to list out their goals,
1:03.9	their dreams, their priorities, their habits, the things that they want to give attention and energy to,
1:09.4	in the background, there's often a subtle sense of doubt. In the background, there's this noise.
1:17.1	Let's call it noise. And that noise is filled with doubt, worry, fear, hopelessness. And that noise
1:29.1	becomes slowly, it starts to turn up and it becomes louder and louder in volume.
1:38.3	As we start to work on the things that we want to make progress on.
1:40.8	And I often ask myself, where does that doubt come from? When people have this doubt towards their
1:47.5	dreams, they're trying to work on in the future, where does it come from? Well, it's a complicated
1:52.4	question. Has a lot of layers into it. But one thing that I want to focus on for this podcast is
1:57.9	I believe that that doubt comes from us looking backwards, looking backwards and seeing how we think
2:05.2	or perceived the last year or few months to have gone. And if we perceive that the past wasn't
2:16.8	that great, we start using that past evidence to project into the future and we start anticipating
2:23.7	that the future is not going to be that great. So now you have a crazy push and pull. You have
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