David, from his 100-foot yacht, stated that a gratitude journal was the antidote to depression, and stops social comparison because it is really in your volition, just like you can choose whether or not to be on edge when you see a tiger. He stresses that you can’t underestimate the importance of gratitude. You might live in a shitty apartment and go to your retail job that doesn’t provide a living wage, where you get verbally abused by customers and supervisors all day, but late afternoon you found a penny on the ground. “Write that down”, David said from his vantage point in a bungalow in the rainforests of Costa Rica, where he doesn’t have to do a lick of work.
