Try this one thing every day to increase your baseline happiness
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
If I told you there was one daily habit that could meaningfully increase your baseline happiness, support emotional regulation, and improve how your brain copes with stress over time, it would probably sound like an oversimplification. But hear me out, because this small bit of advice has changed my life.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up? I'm Grace Beverly and welcome back to Working Hard, the podcast shared guide book on how to improve your own life and achieve what you actually dreamed of doing, because life's too short for boring podcasts and bad advice. What is up and welcome back to working hard. Today's episode is about one small |
| 0:28.6 | daily practice that has a surprisingly large impact on how you feel not just emotionally, but also |
| 0:33.6 | neurologically because it actually directly changes the way your brain processes information, |
| 0:39.0 | stress and reward, which is very much affecting you every day. So we're going to be talking |
| 0:42.9 | about gratitude, but from a neuroscience perspective, rather than a motivational one, I guess, |
| 0:48.5 | and not just gratitude as a general thing, because yes, gratitude as a general thing is important but it's not a specific |
| 0:56.9 | daily practice and this is an actionable specific daily practice so I first want to be honest about my |
| 1:01.4 | own stance here because for a long time I think I saw gratitude as something that I had but it |
| 1:07.7 | wasn't something that I did I would say I was a grateful person and I had gratitude but it wasn't something that I did. I would say I was a grateful person. I had gratitude, |
| 1:11.9 | but it wasn't a something I exercised, I guess. And I understood the general idea of it, |
| 1:17.7 | but I didn't really see anything of it more than that. So I would just want to quickly differentiate. |
| 1:21.7 | There's gratitude as an emotion and as a thing, like you are grateful for things, you have |
| 1:26.9 | gratitude. |
| 1:31.7 | And then there is conversely gratitude as, I guess, a practice. |
| 1:35.0 | So something that you do. |
| 1:37.7 | And I understood the kind of idea of that. |
| 1:40.1 | And some people call it like doing your gratitudes. |
| 1:42.7 | And I could see why people liked that. |
| 1:46.7 | But I didn't fully appreciate how important it was and the psychological and neurological effect of it until I started learning more about |
| 1:52.0 | what was actually happening inside the brain when we practice it consistently. |
| 1:56.7 | And that shift really came after my chat with Dr. Tara Swart, |
| 2:00.1 | because once you understand the mechanisms behind practicing gratitude, you can see why so many people swear by doing that every single day. |
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