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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
Not sure I understand “Rare”. Can someone explain? Thanks (the common one!)
People are good at spewing out thank yous for the things that they don’t necessarily really need or want, but receive anyways. a sincere thank you for something of real value doesn’t require anything more than a simple thank you, yet sometimes the hardest part.
There’s a “Well Done!” joke in here somewhere.
is it that we are all ingrates? rarely saying thank you when we should be truly grateful, but rather off-handedly dropping thank yous on lots of things that don’t really matter.
Like the title. It’s punny!
I think the diagram means that most people say thanks but aren’t really grateful. But it’s rare to find someone who says “thanks” and really means it.
Yeah, I tend to say it sarcastically.
I do mean it from time to time, though… either that, or just to get someone off my back.
And those who are grateful rarely say it, because they are shy or they never get the chance.
Or at least, that is the case when what you are grateful for comes from someone you don’t know. Which is the case in which you are most grateful, because you don’t expect it.
I put too much thought into this one.
Typo. *Which is the case when you are most grateful
Love the title!
I wonder what would be on the upper right of the graph.
@Kate … no you didn’t. Thanks for playing!
@Jessica… Grateful for “Indexed” .. and thanks for fixing the picture a little while ago!
I think the graph depicts that thanks with little gratitude evaluates to “common” and that gratitude without thanks evaluates to “rare”.
How about silent gratitude that is felt in the heart without a word spoken… the contentment of a newborn after a good feed with her mother… I’d say that is pretty common if not universal.
Then we ‘grow up’ and learn how to think and talk and say ‘thank you’ all the time even when we don’t feel gratitude! It seems like we lose this ability to enjoy a simple moment in gratitude
“Thank you” is an expression while gratitude is a feeling. “Thank you” can be faked-true gratitude can’t.
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