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  E: “What Does ‘Sin’ Mean?”

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  Me: “To Miss the Mark.”

  The other day, Emerson and I were doing some reading together. He asked me what the word “sin” meant. I paused for a moment, decided to pass on starting with the definition I learned in my Catholic upbringing and, rather, focus on the etymology of the word, THEN move on to the moral lesson. (...

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  A Wandering Mind

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  Is an Unhappy Mind

  Not too long ago we spent some time with the brilliant neuroscientist Ian Robertson, discussing some Ideas from his great book The Winner Effect. Today we’re going to chat about a powerful idea from his book called The Stress Test which is all about “How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper...

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  The Power of Others

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  Rely on It!

  In our last couple +1s, we talked about a couple ways Alex Korb tells us we can use neuroscience to reverse depression—one small change at a time. Tip #1? Exercise. Tip #2? Set goals and make decisions. Today we’re going to chat about the power of connecting with others. Alex shares some fascinat...

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  Make Decisions

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  But Only If You Want to Feel Better

  In our last +1, we talked about Alex Korb‘s #1 tip to kickstart an Upward Spiral and “Use Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time”: EXERCISE. For the one million and third time, I remind you: Exercise is very (very!) (very!!!) good for you. 🤓 Toda...

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  The Upward Spiral

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  And How to Get on It

  The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb is a great book. As we briefly discussed when we chatted about some parallel wisdom between that book and Tiny Habits, it’s all about “Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time.” Basically, the neuroscience of how to ge...

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  Pearl Bites

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  Alchemizing the Inevitable Chigger-Triggers

  In our last +1, we talked about the neuroscience of Trail making. Or, at least… We explored my thoughts on the parallels between the way our brain rewires itself as I joyfully weed whacked a little Trail out here in the country. We wrapped that one up with a friendly weed-whacking-a-new-Habit-Trail...

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  Strong People

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  ALWAYS Have Strong Weaknesses, Too

  In our last +1, we took a moment to shine a flashlight on some of our strengths that we may take for granted that we’d be wise to take AS granted. We talked about Einstein’s brilliant quip: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole li...

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  Tree-Climbing Fish

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  Einstein Says: Everybody Is a Genius But…

  Today we’re going to go back to Jim Kwik and his great book Limitless one more time. One of the key themes of the book is that we all have a unique blend of background and passions and skills. He echoes the wisdom we talked about in a +1 back in the day featuring wisdom from Ken Robinson in which Ken t...

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  Sugar & Depression

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  Some Crazy (And Crazy-Making!) Stats

  Continuing our brief tour through Kate Hefferon’s textbook on Positive Psychology and the Body, let’s flip open to the chapter on “Positive Nutrition.” Hmmmm… I wonder what science has to say about the impact of our diets on our wellbeing… Guess where Kate starts her discussion? With ...

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  Eudaimonism vs. Hedonism

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  Don’t Want to Be Depressed? Science Says…

  In our last +1, we talked about the fact that when we go after accumulating more and more “stuff” (whether that’s the latest gadgets or Instagram likes), we often find ourselves working harder and harder but not getting any happier. We’re stuck on what scientists call a “hed...

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  Eudaimonic Treadmills

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  Note: There Aren’t Any

  Have you ever heard of “hedonic treadmills”? We talked about them briefly a few years ago in the context of this +1 on the science of hedonic adaptation. Basic idea: We adapt to all the “things” we get in our lives. That shiny new car isn’t so shiny a few months after we get...

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  "The Tyranny of Positive Thinking”

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  And How to Avoid It

  In our last few +1s, we’ve been Optimizing our Optimism. After hanging out with some long-lived nuns, we spent some time with Marin Seligman (NOT SMOKING two packs a day) then we spent some time with Sonja Lyubomirsky (journaling on our awesome future lives). Today I want to go back to Kate Heffero...

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  “The Most Robust Strategy”

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  To Cultivate Optimism Is…

  In our last +1, we talked about some (more) crazy stats on the power of Optimism. We have those long-lived nuns and Martin Seligman telling us that he and his colleagues “estimate that being in the upper quartile of optimism seems to have a beneficial effect on cardiovascular risk roughly equivalen...

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  Optimism’s Longevity Power

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  → NOT Smoking Two Packs a Day

  In our last +1, we talked about some nuns and crazy stats. Recall: Nuns check in for service. They created “entry statements.” Average age of 22. Decades later, researchers analyze those entries and coded them for positive content. By age 85, an astonishing (!) 97% of the nuns whose entries c...

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  Cover It All in Leather

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  Or… Just Wrap Leather Around Your Feet

  In our last +1, we tapped into some wisdom from Brené Brown’s Braving the Wilderness as we wrote ourselves a permission slip and then hopped on the bus. 📝 🚌 Today we’re going to spend some more time with Brené. And, we’ll invite Pema Chodrön to the party. Brené tells us: &...

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