How many times have you heard someone say, they want to make a better world?

It is a noble sentiment, but very hard to achieve, right? Well, actually, it's quite easy.

All we have to do is increase just one human trait. This trait is so powerful

that it alone can make people happier without working on their happiness and make them better,

and by better I mean more generous, more honest, more kind, more everything good,

without a single lesson in morality. So then, what is this one almost magical thing? Drumroll,

please. It's gratitude. You can't be a happy person if you aren't grateful,

and you can't be a good person if you aren't grateful. Almost everything good flows from

gratitude and almost everything bad flows from in gratitude. Let's begin with in gratitude.

Here's a rule of life. In gratitude guarantees unhappiness. It is as simple as that. There isn't an

ungrateful happy person on earth, and there isn't an ungrateful good person on earth.

There are two reasons. Reason one is victimhood. In gratitude always leads to or comes from

victimhood. Ungrateful people by definition think of themselves as victims,

and perceiving oneself as a victim or perceiving oneself as a member of a victim group.

Maybe the single biggest reason people hurt other people from hurtful comments to mass murder.

People who think of themselves as victims tend to believe that because they've been hurt by others,

they can hurt others. And the second reason ungrateful people are in good people

is that in gratitude is always accompanied by anger. The ungrateful are angry,

and angry people lash out at others. If in gratitude makes people unhappy and mean,

then gratitude must make people happy and kind. And so it does. Think of the times you have felt

most grateful. Were they not always accompanied by a feeling of happiness?

weren't they also accompanied by a desire to be kinder to other people?

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