On Gratitude | Anne Lamott, Janice Kaplan & Jonathan Fields

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  To live a good life means to me to have loving feelings.

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  And if I want to have loving feelings, very simple.

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  I just have to go do a few really loving things.

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  So we're entering this time of year where gratitude is kind of on our minds.

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  And honestly, it has also been a year, even a season, where being thankful, noticing what's wondrous or good or even just not bad, well, it's not always the easiest thing.

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  And yet, gratitude, attentiveness and appreciation, they are such deeply wired contributors to the human condition, to our human condition, to yours and mine.

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  Ones that carry with them the capacity to transform nearly any experience, one of anger, one of loss, one of fear, one of anxiety, one of sadness, agitation, futility or grief, into a moment of awakening, solace, connection, and in its highest forms, grace.

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  There's even powerful research on the psychological and physiological effect of gratitude and appreciation, both as a state and a sort of intentional intervention.

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  So we wanted to take this occasion this week to explore a few different takes on gratitude, appreciation, and generosity of spiritual drawing upon conversations I've had over the years with famed author and social observer extraordinaire Ann Lamott, writer, producer, and big thinker Janice Kaplan.

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  And I'm also weaving in a few thoughts of my own from one of my books, how to live a good life.

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  So excited to share these conversations and ideas with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  Okay, so first up is an exchange I had earlier this year with renowned author Ann Lamont.

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  She has this beautifully blunt, funny, irreverent, and deeply wise way of looking at the world.

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  I love her thoughts on noticing and appreciating the wonderful things around us all day, every day.

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  So here's Anne.

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  I think that's why I've written so much about people I'm close to who been terminally ill.

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  Because usually it takes a terminal illness to get stripped down to what is really true and authentic about you.

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  Because if you're very sick and maybe facing death, you're sure not going to carry around this stupid stuff about appearance and surface and trying to get even more people to like you.

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  You know, you're going to concentrate on what was there after all this stuff was stripped away.

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