My dog has these little crumbly treats I put into her food and she thinks they're just okay. Sometimes she doesn't even finish them all. But when I present one as a special treat she has to do a trick for, she devours it.

It seems silly—but I think people are the same way:

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Things you take for granted taste like blah. Adding gratitude makes them delicious.

If you're eating handfuls of nuts out of a bag & it kind of sucks, imagine finding one in the forest & spending 10 min cracking it open. Then eat them one by one and savor the nourishment.

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When about to have a mediocre sandwich, imagine it's a long time ago and you just traveled around all day painstakingly collecting and preparing every ingredient.

When you drink a glass of water, imagine you're stranded in the desert and just found an oasis.

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It works just as well on non-food.

If you're tossing and turning in bed, vividly remember the experience of trying to sleep in a middle seat on an airplane—and how badly you'd be fantasizing about being in a bed.

Or imagine it's the morning and your alarm just went off.

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When you use your phone, imagine it's 2007 and you're playing with a smartphone for the first time.

Imagine you take a time machine to show 1998 you how the phone works. You open each app, one by one, blowing your 1998 mind with what it can do.

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Imagine the experience of having a sore throat when you don't have one and enjoy the glorious lack of pain.

(Works for all injuries/health problems.)

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When you're in a hot shower, imagine those times when a shower's water devastatingly maxes out at lukewarm.

In a lukewarm shower, imagine how thrilled a 1750 person would be.

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