This year, our brains, which unfortunately work like magnets for the negative input (fear, worries, the one bad interaction in an otherwise good day) are likely heavily focusing on dire and doom. “Winter Is Coming” has never felt so viscerally full of dread. Exactly all of this builds the case for why our brains need gratitude this Thanksgiving 2020 more than ever. It feels so hard because we need it so much. To persuade you, I offer a breakdown of the science of gratitude and strategies to make it simple. We have enough hard right now, but trust me, this can be really easy with big benefits to get us through the next few months.