“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.” —Jennifer Weiner
To prepare for this research project I did the "The good things" gratitude activity. In this activity I kept a gratitude journal for a week in which I documented three good things each day. I then used literary sources to explain my data. I feel like I really learned a lot about gratitude and myself during this process.