What is three good things exercise weekly review?

Three good things exercise weekly review is a concept in personal epistemology: Including gratitude in your review practice improves both wellbeing and objectivity.

Example: You sit down for your weekly review on a Sunday evening. The week was rough — a project deadline slipped, a difficult conversation with a colleague went sideways, and you fell behind on two commitments. Your instinct is to catalog the failures, extract the lessons, and build corrective plans. And you do. But before you close the review, you add a section you started including three months ago: three specific things from the week you are genuinely grateful for. This week, they are: your manager giving you honest feedback that stung but clarified a blind spot; the forty-five minutes you spent reading in the park on Wednesday that restored your energy for the rest of the afternoon; and the fact that the slipped deadline revealed a dependency in your project plan you had been overlooking for weeks — which means you can fix it now rather than discovering it at launch. As you write that third item, something shifts. The slipped deadline, which felt like pure failure fifteen minutes ago, now registers as a detection event — your system surfaced a hidden problem before it became catastrophic. You are not rewriting history or minimizing the miss. You are seeing a dimension of the event that your negativity bias had been hiding. The review that started heavy ends with a sense of proportion: real problems acknowledged, real corrections planned, and real value recognized in places your default emotional response had obscured. You close your notebook and notice that you are looking forward to next week instead of dreading it.

This concept is part of Phase 45 (Review and Reflection) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for review and reflection.