The Saturday Evening Post published my most recent column, “Gratitude: Get What You Get and Don’t Get Upset.” Gratitude is such a simple, yet powerful emotion. In fact, one of the most surprising and robust findings in research on happiness is the effect that expressing gratitude has on one’s basic level of happiness. In a nutshell, when people express gratitude, they feel happier for several days. And, not unexpectedly, the recipients of that gratitude feel pretty darned good too. Yet, gratitude isn’t highly valued in our culture. To learn more about gratitude, including the three forces that hold us back from expressing gratitude and how you can express it toward yourself and others, read my column.