The Power of Gratitude | A Bit of Optimism

7 Mar 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube interview clip featuring Simon Sinek and another speaker discussing the psychological effects of solitary confinement and the deliberate practice of gratitude. The speaker recounts advice from a priest who said people pray from need, fear, or gratitude, and chose to pray daily for gratitude while in solitary confinement as a resilience strategy.

Solitary confinement is a form of torture. You know, people go crazy.
How did you come.
Out of this healthy?
A priest once told me, he said, you know, people pray for three reasons. People pray for need, people pray for fear, or people pray for gratitude. And he said, the most effective one is gratitude. So I started practicing that.
And you decided every day not to pray to get out of jail, not to pray to make the pain end, not to pray to see your family. You prayed for gratitude every day.
If you have expectations on things that you really don't control and you put your entire well being into that that you cannot control, you are very vulnerable. But I knew since the day I went to prison that the battlefield was my head. That was the one thing that I was in control of and the one thing I needed to take care of.