Terrific book review. The core concept makes sense on an intuitive level but it is kind of hard to see how this is an advancement over striving for gratitude and compassion for any other reason. Is the conclusion basically saying that if people realize that gratitude and compassion will improve self control, that this somehow necessarily lead to more people practicing gratitude and compassion? Regardless of the conclusion, I am always fascinated to read the setups and results of psychology experiments. I am with you on preferring to see more of the results when it comes to discussions of experiments. Hey btw I see you are in Eugene - I am in Springfield :)

Much love - Carl "Totally Not A Bot" Gnash / @carlgnash

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