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Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by kilroy123 »

yboris wrote: post #71
kilroy123 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mandatory, this is anecdotal... I do this every morning when I wake up and have for a good year or so. I honestly don't notice much of a difference.

Not anecdotal, please see links to research in other comments. Furthermore, just because something doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it doesn't work for others. Additionally, unless you've been keeping a log before and after you started the interventions, you should be at least skeptical about the difference you expect. It's entirely possible you got better, adjusted to the norm, and just think you feel as good as y…

Fair enough

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by crystalcamarao »

ducharmdev wrote: post #68
crystalcamarao wrote: post #2

Hi, Do you want to become better at being grateful? I built a simple site where you can list 3 things you’re grateful for that day. Research shows that being grateful makes you happier and healthier. I want to help people be more grateful, especially people who are depressed. I’d appreciate your comments. Thanks!

Very minor suggestion, but using bullets and numbering is a bit visually redundant. I would probably choose one or the other vs both. Beyond that, really fun idea. It makes me happy to see an app idea with a more humanistic goal.

Sorry about that, something’s wrong with the code. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by webmobdev »

king_magic wrote: post #31

Research shows that if you list at least three things you’re grateful for everyday, you will significantly improve your mental health. Does it really , or does this line just sound good? If you're going to make a claim like this, you should probably link to peer-reviewed research that backs this up.

Not OP, but it seems to be a well-researched topic ("Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration" - https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/pdfs/GratitudePDFs/2Wood-Gr... ) from 1930's onward!

  Social scientists have focused on gratitude since the 1930s (Baumgarten-Tramer, 1938; Bergler, 1945, 1950; Gouldner, 1960; Heider, 1958; Schwartz, 1967; Simmel, 1950). Though it has been considered fundamental to the maintenance of reciprocity obligations between people (Gouldner, 1960; Simmel, 1950) and evolutionarily adaptive for its promotion of altruistic behavior (Trivers, 1971), the bulk of empirical research occurred over the past dozen years because psychological research was long dominated by a focus on pathology rather than flourishing (Seligman & Csik- szentmihalyi, 2000). Two classic studies—showing that expressing and experiencing gratitude bring peace of mind, satisfying personal relationships, and well-being (Emmons & McCullough, 2003; McCullough et al., 2002)—catalyzed the field, and since then a girth of research on gratitude and its applications have emerged.
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279403394_Gratitude...

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by crystalcamarao »

webmobdev wrote: post #93
king_magic wrote: post #31

Research shows that if you list at least three things you’re grateful for everyday, you will significantly improve your mental health. Does it really , or does this line just sound good? If you're going to make a claim like this, you should probably link to peer-reviewed research that backs this up.

Not OP, but it seems to be a well-researched topic ("Gratitude and well-being: A review and theoretical integration" - https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/pdfs/GratitudePDFs/2Wood-Gr... ) from 1930's onward! Social scientists have focused on gratitude since the 1930s (Baumgarten-Tramer, 1938; Bergler, 1945, 1950; Gouldner, 1960; Heider, 1958; Schwartz, 1967; Simmel, 1950). Though it has been considered fundamental to th…

That’s super helpful. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by smusamashah »

npsimons wrote: post #43
dhumph wrote: post #17

I like the idea of this, but frankly the necessity of a login is too big of a barrier for me.

I've never understood dedicating a whole darn website to such simple concepts. Perhaps that's why I'm not rich. It's three things! Just write them down somewhere. Heck, put them in a text file and check it into git. I ran into a similar mindset with someone asking about BMI on another forum I frequent and someone suggested a website. It's two math operations! Just open the calculator on your phone (yes, even flip pho…

Yes you can put it on wall. But just look at that things listed by other. Even reading them made me feel good. Made me realize some things I take for granted. It's nice and simple project.

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by smusamashah »

crystalcamarao wrote: post #78
haram_masala wrote: post #61

My suggestion is that you gameify this. Add daily challenges, unlock achievements, and compete with others using the app in your area. Crush your friends at staying grateful and you get exclusive skins to download for the app. Really, engagement is the key.

I was thinking of that too. Thanks for sharing!

Don't. Keep it light hearted as it is now.

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by crystalcamarao »

smusamashah wrote: post #96
crystalcamarao wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking of that too. Thanks for sharing!

Don't. Keep it light hearted as it is now.

I see, I guess I will have to think more about it. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by crystalcamarao »

smusamashah wrote: post #95
npsimons wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never understood dedicating a whole darn website to such simple concepts. Perhaps that's why I'm not rich. It's three things! Just write them down somewhere. Heck, put them in a text file and check it into git. I ran into a similar mindset with someone asking about BMI on another forum I frequent and someone suggested a website. It's two math operations! Just open the calculator on your phone (yes, even flip pho…

Yes you can put it on wall. But just look at that things listed by other. Even reading them made me feel good. Made me realize some things I take for granted. It's nice and simple project.

Glad it makes you feel good. Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by b3kart »

billfruit wrote: post #64
b3kart wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With no experimental validation my theory is as good as Freud’s theory for all intents and purposes. Maybe we should be thinking around improving experimental methodology instead? Then we can try to come up with complex theories and test them.

Without resorting to experiments, theories can be valuable in themselves, their soundness of argument, their coherence, and them not leading to confounding and condtradictory predictions can guide us as to their validity. There is value in approaching problems analytically rather than resorting to empirical methods.

Spotted a mathematician. ;-)

> theories can be valuable in themselves

Maybe they can be (in pure mathematics, or philosophy, as the sibling comment points out), but not if your end-goal is to apply your theory or its predictions in the real world. Then suddenly the soundest and most coherent of theories can fall apart.

> There is value in approaching problems analytically rather than resorting to empirical methods.

Sure, but whether your arrive at your predictions analytically or empirically it does not preclude you from testing them experimentally.

Re: Show HN: Three Things Daily – Make gratitude a daily habit

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Post by mercer »

crystalcamarao wrote: post #2

Hi, Do you want to become better at being grateful? I built a simple site where you can list 3 things you’re grateful for that day. Research shows that being grateful makes you happier and healthier. I want to help people be more grateful, especially people who are depressed. I’d appreciate your comments. Thanks!

Nice idea! I remember in my first month or two of therapy, my therapist basically kept training me to list 3 things to be grateful for, and I was mostly annoyed about how much of the therapy was about that.

But, it turned out to be very effective, and being 'forced' to do my homework paid off. She later explained that she usually starts out with this 'exercise' because most of her clients are not just dealing with their particular issues, but also with those issues festering and affecting their sense of self-worth and day-to-day thinking process. And helping her clients improve in that area generally made it much easier and effective when dealing with the particulars.

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