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"In order to be properly grateful you have to understand what it would be like to be suffering and deprived because otherwise you think that the normal state of affairs is that things work. And that's not the normal state of affairs. It's amazing that anything complex ever works and the fact that so many complex things work around us is really, in a sense, it's miraculous. But, if things work you ignore them."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Oct 11, 2011

Quote taken from The Agenda with Steve Paikin - On Gratitude at 1:55.


"In order to be properly grateful you have to understand what it would be like to be suffering and deprived because otherwise you think that the normal state of affairs is that things work. And that's not the normal state of affairs. It's amazing that anything complex ever works and the fact that so many complex things work around us is really, in a sense, it's miraculous. But, if things work you ignore them."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Oct 11, 2011

Quote taken from The Agenda with Steve Paikin - On Gratitude at 1:55.


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