Name: 不満の解毒剤 (An Antidote to Dissatisfaction)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:33:43.000Z
Duration: 10 min 1 s
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Everybody is familiar with the feeling that things are not as they should be.

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Your relationships not satisfying enough.

That you don't have the things you crave.

A chronic dissatisfaction that makes you look outwards with envy

Pop culture, advertising and social media made this worse

by reminding you that aiming for anything less than your dream job is failure,

you need to have great experiences constantly,

be conventionally attractive, have a lot of friends,

and find your soulmate, and that others have all of these things,

And of course, a vast array of self-improvement products

implies that it's all your fault for not working hard enough on yourself.

In the last two decades, researchers have been starting to

investigate how we can counteract these impulses.

The field of positive psychology emerged.

The study of what makes life worth living.

While cognitive behaviorial therapy was developed to change negative feelings.

Scientists began to ask why are some people happier and more satisfied than others,

and are there ways to apply what they're doing right, to the rest of us.

In this video, we want to talk about one of the strongest predictors of

and how good they are at dealing with hardship.

An antidote to dissatisfaction so to speak.

While gratitude may sound like another self-improvement trend

what we currently know about it is based on a body of scientific work and studies.

Gratitude can mean very different things to different people in different contexts.

It's a character trait, a feeling, a virtue

You can feel grateful towards someone who did something for you,

for random events like the weather, or even for nature.

that motivates animals to exchange things for their mutual benefit

and can be found in the animal kingdom among certain fish,

When your brain recognises that someone's done something nice for you

it reacts with gratitude to motivate you to repay them.

This gratitude makes you care about others,

This was important because as human brains got better at reading emotions,

selfish individuals were identified and shunned.

It became an evolutionary advantage to play well with others,

For example, if you were hungry and someone else showed you

you felt gratitude towards them and a bond to return the favour in the future.

When you repaid them, they felt gratitude towards you.

This brought your ancestors close together,

So early forms of gratitude were biological mechanisms

that modified your behaviour towards cooperation

But over time, gratitude became more than just

Scientists found that gratitude stimulates the pathways

in your brain involved in feelings of reward,

It also makes it easier to save and retrieve positive memories.

gratitude directly counteracts negative feelings

in traits like envy and social comparison,

As a consequence, people who are grateful no matter what for

and are better at dealing with traumatic events.

In a way, gratitude makes it less likely that you'll fall

into one of the psychological traps modern life has set for you.

For example, gratitude measurably counters the tendency to

actually getting it can feel daft and empty.

You can find yourself emotionally back where you started

and try to achieve the next biggest thing

looking for that satisfaction instead of being satisfied with yourself.

Or imagine being lonely and wanting to have more friends.

You actually might have someone or even multiple people

But you might feel that this is not enough,

that you're a loser, and you feel bad about yourself.

so you might turn down their attempts to hang out

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不満の解毒剤 (An Antidote to Dissatisfaction)

cognitive

chronic

depression

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