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The hidden dangers of gratitude
The burden of owing someone a favour that you can never fully repay can be crushing.
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Gratitude can make a person kinder, more satisfied with life and relationships, physically healthier and more resilient to stress and depression.
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As the year draws to a close, many of us – by habit or some inner prompting – will take time to step back and take stock: tallying the year’s achievements and setbacks, the things we did and failed to do, the regrets and the lessons learnt.
In that private reckoning, those of us who have made it through another year relatively unscathed remind ourselves to be grateful for all that has gone well – for good health, for catastrophes averted, for work that still pays the bills, for not being among those whose jobs have vanished overnight in yet another round of corporate cuts and layoffs. And grateful, too, that the juggernaut of artificial intelligence has, for now, spared us.
