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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. As we begin Thanksgiving week, this story seems appropriate.

A Harvard Medical School professor has identified gratitude as vital to happiness.

Sanjeev Chopra has studied those who win the lottery, concluding that at the end of

the year, they're back to their baseline happiness,

and some are less happy. He explains that hedonic adaption causes us to grow accustomed to what we

win or otherwise possess, so it becomes familiar and loses its ability to make us happy.

What then makes us happiest? Finding a purpose in life that

leads to flourishing, giving to others, and expressing gratitude. Chopra cites research showing that

if you express gratitude on a regular basis, you'll be happy, you'll be more creative. You'll be more fulfilled. You might even live

10 years longer. In fact, research shows that you can increase your happiness 25% by the regular

practice of expressing gratitude. Such Thanksgiving need not be religious, according to the Washington Post. The act of saying grace over a meal, or otherwise feeling grateful, brings benefits on its own, we're told. But there's a flaw in this reasoning that we need to remedy in order to experience the true power of gratitude today.

President Biden pardoned two turkeys on Friday, continuing a long-standing presidential tradition.

As the New York Times noted, peanut butter and jelly will be boosted, not basted, living out their

natural lives at Purdue University.

If these turkeys could express Thanksgiving for their pardons, should they be generically grateful?

Or shouldn't they be grateful to those who spared them from someone's dinner table?

Wanda Dench sent a text inviting her grandson to Thanksgiving dinner.

However, he had changed his phone number and the text went to a student named Jamal Hinton instead.

He notified her of the mistake, but she ended up inviting him anyway. Six years later,

the two are continuing the tradition. Should Jamal

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