I Have a Gratitude Problem | Mal Wrenn Corbin | TEDxBostonCollege

My talk challenges a deeply held cultural assumption: that gratitude is always good. We live in the age of gratitude culture — gratitude journals, gratitude challenges, gratitude as a prescribed cure-all. And gratitude IS important. But what I've learned — in my own life and in the lives of people around me — is that gratitude can become a psychological contract that keeps us from changing. Not because we lack courage, but because wanting something different can feel immoral when someone has been good to us. I call this The Gratitude Problem. And through my own story of risking a nearly 30-year corporate career to publish a raw, honest memoir, I'll show how gratitude can become a cage we build ourselves — and introduce a framework called Grateful AND True to help people carry their gratitude forward — without letting it hold them back. Mal Wrenn Corbin is a keynote speaker, author, and financial services executive who challenges the stories we tell ourselves about who we are — and what we're allowed to want. She grew up navigating poverty, foster care, and homelessness in Worcester, Massachusetts, and went on to become a first-generation college graduate of Dartmouth College, earning her M.Ed. from Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development. She has spent nearly 30 years building a career in financial services, and in 2024 published her memoir Raising Wrenns: a raw, honest account of survival and identity that earned a Kirkus Recommended review and was Runner-Up for the Indie Author Project 2024 Memoir of the Year. Her TEDx talk explores how gratitude — one of our most celebrated virtues — can quietly become the very thing keeping us from living authentically. Mal lives in Massachusetts and speaks professionally on the topics of resilience, identity, and the courage to be both grateful and true. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Receive SMS online on sms24.me

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