Why Being Grateful Makes Us Feel Great (A Thanksgiving Re-run)
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's Thanksgiving - a good time to think about gratitude and being selfless. Concentrating on the things we have to be grateful for is a great way to boost your happiness. So thank the people who've done good things for you, and think of ways you can help others too.
This circle of gratitude – the science suggests – will also make you a better friend to one of the most important people in your life… your future self.
In a re-run of a 2020 episode, Dr Laurie investigates this effect with Northeastern University’s Professor David DeSteno – author of “Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion and Pride.”
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| 0:41.9 | Hey, Happiness Lab listeners. |
| 0:44.0 | Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving season is just around the corner. |
| 0:47.7 | And that means it's a time of year to connect with an emotion that's super important for feeling happier. |
| 0:52.9 | Gratitude. |
| 0:54.1 | Many of us associate gratitude with |
| 0:56.0 | things like thank you cards or toasts around the dinner table. But research shows that gratitude |
| 1:01.0 | can also be a powerful tool for reaching our future goals. How can gratitude help your performance, |
| 1:06.2 | you ask? Well, to answer that, I'm turning back to one of the episodes we did all the way back in 2020. |
| 1:12.9 | In this throwback episode, I talked to my friend David Desteno. |
| 1:16.8 | David is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, the host of the How |
| 1:21.2 | God Works podcast, and the author of Emotional Success, The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and |
| 1:26.9 | pride. David's work shows how the simple practice of gratitude success, the power of gratitude, compassion, and pride. David's work shows how the simple |
| 1:29.6 | practice of gratitude might be the very habit you need, not just to feel happier, but to be nicer |
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