And, like so many emotions, gratitude can be practiced, and learned. Keeping a gratitude journal, or taking a moment each day to name one thing that you’re grateful for out loud, trains your brain to look for more similar experiences.

Key idea 8

Become comfortable with paradox.

Over the course of these chapters, we’ve traveled to two emotional places: where we go when we’re hurting, and some places we go when life is treating us well. As you’ve already discovered, there’s nothing simple about this inner exploration. The seemingly neat categories of “sad” and “happy” are bursting with nuance(complexity) and contradictions.

We’ve gone over how sadness can make us feel good, and that happiness can be less rewarding than joy. We’ve discovered that emotions can lodge(settle) themselves in your body, as well as your mind. And that, to a surprising degree, you can influence how you feel by practicing skills like hopefulness.

Emotional granularity is messy(Complicated). To go there, really go there, you need to get comfortable with paradoxes. Paradoxical elements seem opposite to each other. But, really, they’re linked. Like light and dark. One doesn’t really exist without the other.

As the navigator of your own emotions, you’ll need to become more and more comfortable with emotional paradoxes. How you crave (desire) closeness to others, but act in ways that shut yourself off; or how you can lead a board meeting with confidence, but crumple every time you need to speak to your mother. 

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Atlas of the heart

✅gratitude : قدرشناسی

✅journal : دفتر یادداشت

✅grateful : قدر دان

✅travel: سفر کردن

✅treating : رفتار کردن

✅discover: قهمیدن

✅inner: درونی

✅exploration : کاوش

✅seemingly : ظاهرا

✅bursting : منفجر شدن

✅nuance : پیچیدگی

✅complexity : پیچیدگی

✅contradiction : تناقض

✅sadness : ناراحتی

✅lodge : ساکن شدن

✅influence : اثر گذاشتن

✅hopefulness : امیدواری

✅messy: شلوغ و پیچیده

✅paradoxes : تناقضات

✅opposite : مخالف

✅exist : وجود داشتن

✅navigator : هدایتگر

✅crave : خواستن

✅closeness : صمیمیت

✅Board meeting: جلسه هیئت مدیره

✅Crumple: مچاله شدن

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