Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker

podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt. And I'm

Antonio Dodge. Most of the skills that we have in life just as people are things that we have to learn.

They're not necessarily things we come packaged with.

And that includes a lot of virtues and characteristics

that we find desirable in people. I personally believe that we all come desiring wanting love and so love is

something that we basically come packaged with but expressions of love being

able to experience it in a healthy way being able to experience it in a healthy way, being able to build relationships.

These are things that we have to develop over time, their skills, not necessarily natural talents.

So we come to the world with a talent for love, but to have good relationships, we have to build

this skill.

And I think that a lot of people, if they don't get something the first time or if something is difficult or challenging

unless as a kid we were taught to push through that initial phase unless we were taught to keep going in the face of it being a challenge for us.

We oftentimes just give up and that in and of itself is a skill, pushing through, not giving up, allowing ourselves to keep going in the face of disappointment or frustration, and continuing to build skills even when that's a difficult thing to do.

Skill building itself is a skill to build.

Well, in this podcast we want to talk about gratitude and how gratitude is a skill that we develop.

Maybe some people have more of a natural talent for it

and they have an easier time of developing the skill for other people.

Gratitude might be more difficult for them to

build and develop but gratitude in and of itself is a massive characteristic that not only is

desirable to other people but it is the bedrock upon which we learn all of our life's lessons.

If we don't have gratitude when something crappy happens to us, we may be so focused on the bad thing that happened in the result in our life that we completely miss the message or the lesson to be taken from that situation and when we miss it then we can't avoid replicating

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