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One thing that is important about the exercise is that it is focused on the current day. If you just list three things you are grateful for in general, then every day you will have the same list. For example, one person who took me up on the challenge posted “My health, my husband, my kids” every day. By making it specific to today, you force your brain to reflect on all the positives that you have recently experienced, putting activity into the left side of your prefrontal cortex. And this is the whole point.
The Art of Taking It Easy
Brian King
Simply put, the brain needs to model a ‘self’ in order to predict future states that the ‘self’ might inhabit. Along this line of thought, [Friston (2018)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100261X#bib0300) suggested that self-awareness arises whenever an organism generates predictions about the consequences of its actions, and thus aims to minimize the *expected* surprise resulting from those actions.
From Many to (N)one: Meditation and the Plasticity of the Predictive Mind
sciencedirect.com
His greatest lesson from those years: “Take a simpleton and give him power and confront him with intelligence—and you have a tyrant.”
Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age
newyorker.com
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