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For this chapter, we are going to do a "Relationship Inventory."  You do not need to turn in the activity to me, but I would like you to share your findings.  What practices are you doing that allow for connectedness and community in your first column?  What practices can you implement to improve the relationship with those listed in your second and third columns?   Chapters 3 & 4 are filled with ideas to help. Next week, we will discuss what gratitude practice you chose and describe how it affected your week.

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We will take this gratitude quiz during our book club, read your results, & look at the exercises for cultivating gratitude below your results.  This week practice one of these exercises or find a gratitude practice from Chapter 2 that you can do.
Next week, we will discuss what gratitude practice you chose and describe how it affected your week.

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Students by nature want to be awake and engaged.  They are looking to educators to teach them how. Teachers want awake students, but they do not see that as their role nor do they know how to bring that awake state to them.
Dr. Howell believes that thanking awakens our thinking. If we can teach the art of gratitude, our students will have richer and more engaging learning experiences.
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How thanking awakens our thinking: Kerry Howells at TEDxLaunceston

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Gratitude Practices were shared in the Book, here are more.

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Gratitude Practices were shared in the Book, here are more.

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Feel free to share the gratitude practice you're implementing or other ideas/epiphanies below. :)

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Our tendency to pay more attention to bad things & overlook good things is likely a result of evolution. Earlier in human history, paying attention to bad, dangerous, & negative threats in the world was literally a matter of life and death. Those who were more attuned to danger and who paid more attention to the bad things around them were more likely to survive.  This negativity bias still exists in this modern era.
In this TED clip Steven Pinker shows us that we are doing better as a society compared to 30 years ago.  We should look at issues as problems to be solved rather than apocalypses waiting to happen.

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Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers

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Was 2017 really the “worst year ever,” as some would have us believe? In his analysis of recent data on homicide, war, poverty, pollution and more, psychologist Steven Pinker finds that we’re doing better now in every one of them when compared with 30 years ago. But progress isn’t inevitable, and it doesn’t mean everything gets better for everyone all the time, Pinker says. Instead, progress is problem-solving, and we should look at things like climate change and nuclear war as problems to be solved, not apocalypses in waiting. “We will never have a perfect world, and it would be dangerous to seek one,” he says. “But there’s no limit to the betterments we can attain if we continue to apply knowledge to enhance human flourishing.”