I remember watching lectures by prof. Tal Ben-Shahar few years ago about happiness (yes happiness :)). He also mentioned gratitude, and a ritual of writing down 7 things that you are grateful for each day before bedtime. Namely, it should increase your base level of happiness. Other stuff he mentioned is having regular physical activity and listening to your favorite music tracks (this is something he called peak experience and it also gradually raises you base level of happiness). But I guess these two are obvious compared to practicing gratitude regularly.
This title to this article promises a lot, and the article utterly fails to deliver. It's just some journalist's feel-good fluff piece.
I will feel gratitude if HN users decline to promote this junk any further.
"Did you help somebody solve a problem? Write it down. Did you connect with a colleague or friend? Write it down. Did you make somebody smile? Write it down."
This sound more like pride/fulfillment rather than gratitude?
At last, someone solved the great mystery! Now I can be successful, after being a loser my whole life!