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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: ‘Practicing Gratitude’ Evaluated: A Chat with Gena Gorlin
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer interviews professor and clinical psychologist Gena Gorlin about the value of gratitude, possible misconceptions about it, and how it’s being understood and implemented in psychology and psychotherapy.
Among the topics covered:
Gratitude and its role in psychological exercises within the gratitude movement;
Whether these kinds of exercises are useful and valuable;
How the psychological benefits of gratitude exercises depend on a purposeful orientation towards values;
Why it’s important to distinguish the good that comes from others from natural goods, such as a sunny day;
Why the difference between gratitude, humi...