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A Counterintuitive Way to Cheer Up When You’re Down

Five takeaways:

  1. Research shows that a reliable treatment of unhappiness is to make the effort to bring joy to others. A concerted effort to do so can be a source of well-being.
  2. Misery loves company, but it creates company too: research shows that unhappy people tend to spread their unhappiness to those around them.
  3. There is growing evidence that a “fake it till you make it” attitude towards personal happiness can help increase overall happiness. This includes a concerted effort to bring joy to others.
  4. Spending money on others and volunteering have both been shown to raise one’s own happiness levels
  5. “By deliberately preparing yourself to cheer up the people around you the way a happy person spontaneously would, you’ll create the conditions by which you can produce your own happiness naturally—and give the gift of happiness to others, as well.”

From Arthur C. Brooks at The Atlantic:
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Why Stress-Baking and Cleaning Make You Less Anxious

Five takeaways:

  1. In the early days of Covid, a baking craze arose. The hashtag #quarantinebaking became so popular that Amazon sold out of popular brands of flour and chocolate chips.
  2. It turns out there is neurological proof that homekeeping and self-care activities such as baking can help stop cycles of anxiety and depression by changing how the human brain self-regulates.
  3. When humans perceive a threat, their amygdala– a region of the brain associated with stress– begins firing. The prefrontal cortex, which regulates emotion, begins working less effectively.
  4. Activities such as baking or bicycling can reset the brain and allow the prefrontal cortex to more effectively regulate emotion. They offer a sense of applied skill and control.
  5. Studies suggest that behavioral activation– as with activities like baking– can be just as effective as meditation in helping to reregulate brain activity. In the anxious early days of lockdown, this was hugely helpful as an escape.

From Sara Harrison at Wired:
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How Will You Measure Your Life?

Five takeaways:

  1. Management is a noble position when done right, because it offers the opportunity to build others up. To grow in responsibility and to learn.
  2. A greater consciousness about “Life Strategy” allows you to keep the purpose of your life front and center as you decided how to spend time, talent, and energy.
  3. Allocate your personal resources: allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.
  4. At all costs, avoid the “just this once” mentality to breaking your personal code
  5. Remember the importance of humility– productive behavior stems from the humility that comes with self-deprecating behavior and good treatment of others.

From Clayton M. Christensen at Harvard Business Review:
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Listening to Your Body Clock Can Help Improve Performance

Five takeaways:

  1. We all know people who perform better at different times of the day. Research shows that there are also early risers and night owls when it comes to physical performance and athletics.
  2. A British study of an “athletic body clock” revealed three stark categories: Early, Intermediate, and Late.
  3. Research reveals that the physical performance of the “Early” category peaked at noon. Meanwhile, “Intermediate” peaked at 4pm, and “Late” were at their best at 8pm.
  4. When people are forced to perform outside of their body clock’s comfort zone, their prefrontal cortex, which controls sophisticated thought and logic, “remains in a disabled or ‘offline’ state” and takes a long time before it warms up to operating temperature.
  5. It is possible for athletes to retrain their body clocks to perform best at a specific time.

From Metrifit:
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