Suggested interview questions:
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- How can taking a few minutes out to appreciate various aspects of our lives, our relationships, and ourselves impact our mental and physical health?
- We always hear we “should” be grateful for this and that. Why is gratitude important? (And why is it important to not tell people how they should feel?)
- Your book starts with some very basic challenges, like being grateful for our car and furniture? Why did you include such obvious “stuff” in your list?
- What other dimensions of our lives do you encourage people to examine in a positive light?
- Is it necessary to progress through the book from front to back, or can someone skip around?
- Why did you include exercises as well as space for people to write or draw?
- You mention appreciation for others. Don’t you think people already appreciate their partners, spouses, friends, parents, neighbors, and kids?
- If someone does progress through the book from start to finish, the chapters become increasingly difficult. Why is that?
- How can someone find a silver lining in the middle of a crisis?
- How can readers use this book to create their own meaningful gratitude practice?
Click here for an outline of the 12 chapters of this book.
Click here to read excerpts:
Introduction
Wonder All Around
Silver Linings