Gratitude Takes Training — Transcript

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1. 0:00We have to recognize that in ourselves.
2. 0:02We have all of us, myself, yourself, no
3. 0:04one's an exception.
4. 0:05Those of you that are from the old
5. 0:07school tech backgrounds, there's a
6. 0:09default state.
7. 0:11The programming language and and you
8. 0:12know, technology, everything goes to a
9. 0:14default state. The default state, the
10. 0:17fallback natural state for human beings
11. 0:19is to be ungrateful.
12. 0:22It's to complain.
13. 0:24That's our default state. It takes an
14. 0:26effort to get out of that and actually
15. 0:29become grateful in your mind.
16. 0:31You will have to spend no energy to be
17. 0:34ungrateful and to find problems and to
18. 0:36criticize. No energy needs to be spent.
19. 0:38That is your natural state.
20. 0:41But from there to make the effort to
21. 0:44actually see the positive, that's that's
22. 0:46a mental exercise. That's something you
23. 0:48have to do.
24. 0:49That's something you have to push
25. 0:50yourself. Allah does not praise you for
26. 0:52something that comes naturally,
27. 0:54that you didn't have to make any effort
28. 0:56for. Why would you Why would that be
29. 0:57praiseworthy?
30. 0:58You see?
31. 0:59You have to get Just like being lazy is
32. 1:01easy, doing exercises is hard. Well, you
33. 1:03know what? The lazy state is
34. 1:05ingratitude. The lazy state is
35. 1:07you know, ungrateful and critical.
36. 1:10The difficult state is to actually look
37. 1:12at the positive.