Happy thanksgiving 🦃

A Simple Gratitude Practice That Actually Works by Peter Diamandis

When was the last time you felt deeply grateful?

Not just a passing "thank you," but that profound appreciation for everything: your health, loved ones, your purpose in life, and this extraordinary moment in human history that we're privileged to inhabit.

In our exponential world of infinite possibilities, it's easy to get lost in the overwhelm.

Think about it: Our ancestors would view us as gods. We’re living in a deluge of constant miracles and plenty.

But here's the beautiful paradox of Thanksgiving: It calls us to pause this relentless forward momentum and simply appreciate how far we've come.

We’ve transcended the brutal 80-hour workweeks our ancestors toiled just to survive.

Today, each of us has access to more knowledge, resources, and capabilities than history's most powerful rulers.

We have much to be grateful for.

The Gratitude Advantage

The neuroscience of gratitude is amazing. It’s all upside—a force multiplier.

Here's why:

#1. It rewires your brain. Literally. Gratitude triggers dopamine and serotonin, making you feel better instantly. The practice increases the production of oxytocin, which promotes bonding and trust, and elevated levels of norepinephrine, which helps with attention and energy.

#2. Gratitude is contagious. When you're in gratitude, you're burning 30% brighter, and everyone around you feels it.

#3. It transforms leadership. Grateful leaders build resilient, inspired teams.

There is NO downside to gratitude, ONLY UPSIDE.

A Thanksgiving Challenge

Here's a simple practice I use that's perfect for this holiday season:

Each evening, as I’m falling asleep, I identify three things I'm grateful for. Surprisingly, they're rarely about work or technology—usually, they're about my kids, family, friends, and simple moments of joy.

This Thanksgiving please consider doing the same.

As we gather with loved ones this holiday, remember: We're living in the most extraordinary time in human history. Today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be better still.

That's something to be truly thankful for.

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Nine rules of leadership

Hilarious

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We met at the Santa Monica meet up in October. How have you been?

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“These are the hard times in which a genius would wish to live. Great necessities call forth great virtues. When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities, which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman."

Abigail Adams in a letter to her teenage son John Quincy Adams ..future sixth president of the United States

THE GREATER THE CHALLENGES WE FACE (individually and collectively), THE GREATER COMMITMENT we need to have to dominating our protocol (individually and collectively!).

"What is it that you really, really, really want to create over the next one-two-five-ten years?!

‘What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? If you were absolutely guaranteed success in any one goal, small or large, short term or long term, what would it be?’

If you were absolutely guaranteed to succeed, what one thing would you dare to dream?

Write down every single thing that comes to mind.

Then look at the list and ask, what do I REALLY want?

And if I could only achieve ONE thing, to go Gary Keller on it, what ONE thing could I do that might be catalytic for my life?"

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That’s worth the 10-20-30 minutes you might spend on it tonight. (Or tomorrow.)

And while you do, keep Albert Einstein’s wisdom top of mind--that we are here for the sake of one another, and that we must earnestly exert ourselves in order to give in return as much as we have received.

In 1 hour a day

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True innovation in tradfi…Love it

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10 habits guaranteed to change your life

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Hilarious 😂

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Using negative energy to change your life

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Another masterclass with Michael Saylor.. I love how Natalie just lets him roll.

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