How to be grateful when you are not a grateful person

Gratitude is easy to preach and hard to feel on a bad day. One physician spent a 40-year career learning to practice it on purpose. Scott Abramson is a neurologist and author. This episode is based on his article "A physician's three lessons on gratitude in medicine," published on KevinMD. You will hear the patient in a wheelchair who pointed out that his shoes never wear out, the colleague who still savors every sip of a Coca-Cola because he got one cup a year as a boy in Ghana, and what Paul McCartney's approach to singing Yesterday has to do with explaining the same diagnosis for the thousandth time. You will also hear the tool he calls the positive power of negative thinking, the index card he kept on his office computer, and the sentence his parents' generation repeated about shoes and feet. Press play for three stories that make gratitude feel less like advice and more like something you can practice on your next bad day.

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