He is good…
“In our culture, we have lost the notion that virtue is something to cultivate. Gratitude is a virtue because it is something you should practice. However, it is not easy to be grateful because life involves pain and suffering; rather, it is easy to rationally justify resentment — but doing so is extremely toxic. Justifying resentment is, in a strange way, connected to deceit and arrogance. While there are all sorts of reasons to be timid and ungrateful, working against the evidence constitutes the core of the virtue.
Gratitude is a practice to engage in by observing in every situation what miraculous gift you are given within the context of that situation. Of course, that is extraordinarily difficult if the situation is dire. But even if the situation is dire, you could ask: Is it so self-evident that the best stance to prepare still would not be one of gratitude? That is a hard argument to shake”.
Jordan Peterson
