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How to Prime Your Mind for Optimism

By Catherine A. Sanderson — 2019

We can shift our mindset toward more optimism and happiness.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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The Motivational Power of Gratitude | Valorie Kondos Field

When Valorie Kondos was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, it would have been easy for her to descend into despair and hopelessness.

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2019
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Gratitude, a John Theurer Cancer Center Story

We treated Dominick first and Large B-Cell Lymphoma second.

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2017
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Why Patients Fighting Cancer Can be the Best Professors of Gratitude | Asal Azizoddin | TEDxFrisco

Dive into a story of how an oncology pharmacist’s journey of practicing gratitude and serving patients, who were battling cancer, unraveled into a greater mission of inspiring other people to connect and to incorporate more gratitude and share it with others.

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2020
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How Cancer Saved My Life—Why Crisis Is an Opportunity | Giulia Muntoni | TEDxHHL

In November 2013, Giulia found out that she had breast cancer. The following March she had a mastectomy and, by May 2014, she started chemotherapy. In our society cancer is often associated with death. But this is a story about life. For her, cancer was literally a re-birth.

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2017
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The Two Minute Morning Rule For Having A Great Day with Neil Pasricha

Life gets busy… fast. Have you ever found yourself with so many browser tabs open you can’t see the titles anymore? Or felt anxious about your jammed schedule for tomorrow because you have no time to focus on what matters? That was a freeze frame capture of me every day for the past few years.

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Neil Pasricha
2019
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The Book of Awesome

Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile.

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Neil Pasricha
2010
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Michael J. Fox Rediscovers His Optimism: ‘There Is No Other Choice’ | Sunday TODAY

Actor Michael J. Fox has projected hope and optimism for nearly 30 years since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991 at age 29.

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2020
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Redefined - Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox joins host Zainab Salbi on the debut episode of Redefined to talk about the personal moments that have shaped her identity as a citizen, activist, artist, daughter, and mother. Formative and transformative stories of hope, loss, struggle, and awakening fill this heartfelt conversation.

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Redefined with Zainab Salbi
2021
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Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride

A pioneering psychologist reveals how three powerful emotions are the surest path to attaining your goals. Grit, the ability to persevere against all odds, is widely recognized as the key to success.

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David DeSteno
2025
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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C. S. Lewis
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