Sunday Insider - Edition #79

The Daily Habit For Doers

Here’s some stuff that inspired us this last week. 

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Listen: The Science of Gratitude & How to Build a Gratitude Practice | Huberman Lab Podcast #47

In this episode, Andres discusses the science of gratitude, which has been shown in peer-reviewed studies to have tremendous positive effects on mental and physical health. He explains, however, that most commonly used gratitude practices are ineffective (such as gratitude lists). The key elements of highly effective gratitude practices are described, including the essential need for story (narrative), receiving or perceiving gratitude rather than giving it, and the role that theory of mind plays in this context. He also discusses why we can't simply make up feelings of gratitude and how reluctance undermines the process.

LISTEN HERE. 

Read: How to stop negative self-talk

The first step to stop negative self-talk is to understand that we can’t stop our thoughts. It’s impossible. The mind’s always going to think. But it is possible to change how we talk to ourselves.

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Watch: How to Stop People Pleasing and Be Happy

“One of the more curious aspects of the ways we are built is that it can take us a very long time indeed to work out what we need in order to be happy.

We might assume that the process was obvious; what could be more straightforward than to want. We’ve ostensibly been doing it since we were four years old and began a powerful campaign for an electric train or set of farmyard animals…”

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