I Have a Gratitude Problem | Mal Wrenn Corbin | TEDxBostonCollege

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My talk challenges a deeply held cultural assumption: that gratitude is always good. We live in the age of gratitude culture — gratitude journals, gratitude challenges, gratitude as a prescribed cure-all. And gratitude IS important. But what I've learned — in my own life and in the lives of people around me — is that gratitude can become a psychological contract that keeps us from changing. Not because we lack courage, but because wanting something different can feel immoral when someone has been good to us. I call this The Gratitude Problem. And through my own story of risking a nearly 30-year corporate career to publish a raw, honest memoir, I'll show how gratitude can become a cage we build ourselves — and introduce a framework called Grateful AND True to help people carry their gratitude forward — without letting it hold them back. Mal Wrenn Corbin is a keynote speaker, author, and financial services executive who challenges the stories we tell ourselves about who we are — and what

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