Tim Urban

I think it's a person-by-person basis.

I mean, I'm sure, yes, of course, in the West, we will, on average, feel gratitude towards different things, or maybe it's a different level of gratitude.

Maybe we feel less gratitude than countries that, you know, obviously, I think the easiest, the person that's most likely to feel gratitude is going to be someone whose life happens to be one where they just move up, up, up throughout their life.

A lot of people in the greatest generation, you know, people who were born in the 20s or whatever.

And a lot of the boomers, too.

The story is the greatest generation grew up dirt poor, and they often ended up middle class.

And the boomers, some of them started off middle class, and many of them ended up quite wealthy.

And I feel like that life trajectory is naturally going to...

foster gratitude, right?

Because you're not going to take for granted these things because you didn't have them.

You know, I didn't go out of the country really in my childhood very much.

You know, like, you know, we traveled, but it was to Virginia to see my grandparents or Wisconsin to see other relatives or, you know, maybe Florida if we're going to the beach.

And then I started going out of the country like crazy in my 20s because I really, you know,

became my favorite thing.

And I feel like because I, if I had grown up always doing that, it would have been another thing.

I'm like, yeah, that's just something I do.

But I still, every time I go to a new country, I'm like, oh my God, this is so cool.

And in another country, this thing I've only seen on the map, I'm like, I'm there now.

And so I feel like,

And a lot of times it's a product of what you didn't have and then you suddenly had.