Strength expert Ryan Niemiec describes gratitude as when you “regularly experience and express thankfulness,” “don’t take the good things that happen in your life for granted,” and “tend to feel blessed in many circumstances” (Niemiec, 2019, p. We can learn to be equally gracious to ourselves and others and accept that we are a work in progress, attempting to act with gratitude in our daily lives. And what’s more, it’s not passive it’s something we can invest in and grow, letting it positively impact our relationships and environment (Seligman, 2011 Brown, 2021).Īs such, gratitude is a “way of doing, trying, failing, and trying again,” says author and research professor Brené Brown (Brown, 2021, p. With gratitude, we become greater participants in our lives, celebrating goodness rather than reacting to it. “ratitude makes us appreciate the value of something, and when we appreciate the value of something, we extract more benefits from it we’re less likely to take it for granted,” says Robert Emmons, professor of psychology and gratitude expert at the University of California (cited in Brown, 2021, p.