Tim Urban

And so in some ways it's a choice and it's a habit.

And maybe it's part of how we were raised or our natural demeanor, but it's such a good exercise.

You are really good at this, by the way.

Your Twitter is like... Go on.

Well, you are constantly just saying, man, I'm lucky.

Or like, I'm so grateful for this.

And it's a good thing to do because you're reminding yourself, but you're also reminding other people to think that way.

And it's like, we are lucky.

And so anyway, I think that scale can go from one to 10.

And I think it's hard to be a 10.

I think you'd be very happy if you could be.

But I think trying to be above a five and looking down at the things you have...

more often than you are looking up at the things you don't or being resentful about the things that people have wronged you.

Germany between the two world wars, you know, like you said, the Soviet era.

kind of mentality.

So yeah, and then when you're soaking in a culture, so there's kind of two factors, right?

It's what's going on in your own head and then what's surrounding you.

And what's surrounding you kind of has concentric circles.

There's your immediate...

group of people, because that group of people, if they're a certain way, if they feel a lot of gratitude and they talk about it a lot, that kind of insulates you from the broader culture because, you know, the people are going to have the most impact on you are the ones closest.