Rainn Wilson
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That is...
a scientific awe and wonder, and it's also a spiritual awe and wonder.
So a meditation practice, a prayer practice that has to do with gratitude.
I also have a gratitude text chain every day, sending out gratitudes to a bunch of friends because
We are wired, I believe, and some studies have shown that we are wired for anxiety because that's what got our species to this point.
We're always on the lookout for some kind of danger and we hear a twig snap and we fear the worst.
We don't think it's just...
Yeah, yeah.
It's a bear.
They're going to eat our face off.
And so we're kind of wired to look for the worst out there.
And what would that be like to recalibrate that?
And gratitude helps us do that.
Meditation, all of these practices, prayer and gratitude practice, kind of rewire your brain.
And if you can do it in the morning, even for just 10 or 15 minutes, like,
it's profound how much it can change your day.
It's kind of like going to the gym.
No one likes to go to the gym.
They don't want to go to the gym.
It's like, I can't wait to go to the gym.