Happy Again: How to Notice What You're Thankful For (Encore)
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Maz Jobrani tries to be more thankful for the good things in his life by writing them down — and encourages his kids to do the same.
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| 0:00.0 | Climate change is going to require collective action. |
| 0:04.0 | But how can individual actions make a difference? |
| 0:07.0 | On a new episode of Life Kit, we're walking you through |
| 0:09.0 | what sort of climate |
| 0:15.0 | week, |
| 0:18.0 | week, where ever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:20.0 | It's good to remember what we can be thankful for every day and not just on |
| 0:26.0 | Thanksgiving. One simple way to bring more gratitude into our lives is to write down |
| 0:31.0 | three good things that have happened to us each day, |
| 0:34.0 | and then to explain why they happen. |
| 0:36.3 | This Thanksgiving we're resharing a favorite episode of ours |
| 0:39.2 | where we ask comedian Ma's Jabrani |
| 0:41.2 | to try practice grounded in gratitude and then share with us how it went. |
| 0:46.3 | Next week we'll be talking with the Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California about how to find |
| 0:50.4 | self-compassion when dealing with the stresses of high school. But first here's |
| 0:54.7 | Mazz Jabrani sharing one thing that he's not grateful for. The first TV role I got in |
| 1:00.8 | Hollywood there was a show called Chicago Hope and I actually auditioned to play a |
| 1:06.8 | security guard in a hospital and there's a disease going around so the doctors want me to lock the doors to the |
| 1:14.8 | hospital so nobody can get in. And I had this really good scene with |
| 1:20.1 | Hector Elizando where I tell him as a security guard that even though he's the main doctor or whatever of the hospital, |
| 1:28.0 | I'm not going to lock the doors and keep people out of the hospital. |
| 1:32.0 | And then they also had quick little establishing shots of me ending up |
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