Gratitude makes you happy and moral, while entitlement makes you angry and miserable. The less you feel owed by life, the more grateful you become. A cultural shift toward entitlement has eroded gratitude across society.
You can't be a happy person if you aren't grateful, and you can't be a good person if you aren't grateful. Almost everything good flows from gratitude, and almost everything bad flows from ingratitude. Let's begin with ingratitude. Here's a rule of life: ingratitude guarantees unhappiness. It is as simple as that. There isn't an ungrateful, happy person on Earth. The problem, however, is people are becoming less grateful. Why? Because people are constantly told that they are entitled to things they haven't earned. Here are two rules of life. Rule number one: the less you feel entitled to, the more gratitude you will feel for whatever you get and the happier you will be. Rule number two: the more you feel entitled to, the less happy you will be. The more that you feel that life or society owes you, the angrier you will get, the less happy you will be. For the full episode of The Dennis Prager Show, go to pragertopia.com, sign up, and become a full member.
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