Neuroscience Reveals The Easy Ritual That Will Make You Happy
u drastically underestimate the power of touch. Actually, I'm wrong... The research says we're really big on touching -- our phones, that is. People touch their phones 85 times a day. But how many times a day do you touch someone else? Probably not nearly as often. That's kinda messed up, don't ya think? You need to touch people more. It will improve your life. Sound like Hallmark-Card-bumper-sticker-hippie-nonsense? Wrong. What happens when babies are deprived of touch? It can screw them up for life. As David…
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This Is How To Get Healthy: 6 Research-Backed Secrets
u want to know how to get healthy? Eat better, exercise and get more sleep... But you don't need me to tell you that. You know that. So is health just a matter of biology? Nope. Research shows living well is more than marathons and what you put in your mouth. So let's learn the health-boosting stuff that nobody talks about. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The first wealth is health." But I'm a nerd, so that's not specific enough for me... What's your health really worth? Economists say it's…
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This is How To Find Happiness: 6 Proven Secrets From Research
all want to know how to find happiness. And the internet is chock full of advice on how to get there -- but most of it is based on studies done on a bunch of college sophomores. Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't trust our 19 year-old selves when it comes to the most important thing in life... So what produces happiness all around the world, among people young and old, across the most varied backgrounds imaginable? I figured I'd call an…
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This Is The Fun Way To Easily Improve Your Life, Backed By Research
u don't laugh enough. Yes, humor can improve your life. Not too surprising, you say? Here's the problem: you treat humor like a nice thing that happens, oh, whenever. But scientific research is showing giggles, guffaws and jokes are far too important to be left to chance. We're gonna learn the best ways to use humor to make you happier, healthier, more successful at work and even to improve your relationships. First, let's learn the neuroscience of why we laugh. Why are funny…
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This Is The Best Way To Motivate Yourself To Exercise: 4 Proven Secrets
rkout motivation. You don't have any. You know exercise is good... and you still don’t do it. You're not alone. We all want a magic pill that makes us smarter, happier, and better looking. Good news is the magic pill is here. Bad news is it's exercise. Time to dump a bucket of solve on this problem and make you awesome. And we'll do it by listening to your favorite music, hanging out with friends and taking lessons from Seinfeld. Sound good?…
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FOMO: This Is The Best Way To Overcome Fear Of Missing Out
u hear about FOMO a lot these days. In fact, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. What does it really mean? A recent study on the subject defined it as: ...‘‘the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you’re missing out – that your peers are doing, in the know about, or in possession of more or something better than you’’. Under this framing of FoMO, nearly three quarters of young adults reported they experienced the phenomenon. It's…
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Personal Habits: How To Make Good Habits Stick, 6 Proven Secrets
all want to get to the gym, be more productive, be kinder to our loved ones... and then we don’t do it. Why? Well, building solid personal habits can be hard. In fact, research shows it takes an average of 66 days to build a new good habit. From Oliver Burkeman’s Help! How to be slightly happier and get a bit more done: On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging,…
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How To Make Life Spectacular: 4 Rituals Backed By Research
ere's no shortage of advice on how to live a great life. Research has answers... but, frankly, who can remember them all? What do you need to do to be happy? What attitude should you take toward life? How can you reduce stress and be gritty? What makes for a loving relationship? It's exhausting... I'm here to make it simple. Just remember one word: SOCC. (Yeah, it's a made-up word, but work with me here, okay?) So what's it mean? Sappy Optimism Control Communicate A missing…
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