Master of Life Awareness 🧠

Clear goals, immediate feedback, and the challenge/skill ratio are considered “conditions for flow.” However, they do not actually describe the state itself. Missing in this description is the one element that truly sets flow apart: the creative, problem-solving nature of the state. 0:00 Intro 1:26 Steps in the Flow Cycle 4:44 Popularized by Positive Psychologists Csikszentmihalyi & Nakamura 5...

See the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does “public opinion” really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter...

When redirecting and capturing your audience’s attention, attention cues should be used sparsely and placed correctly. In comparison to their primate predecessors, modern-day consumers are relatively desensitized when it comes to attention cues. Processes of rapid cue-directed orienting, information gathering, and action selection – What is it? Where is it? What to do? 0:00 Intro 1:47 The Origins...

Virtually no claim in Ms Hume’s book is undocumented – to have access to more material, one would need to be able to read French, and go to the original source material. The reader will soon discern that neither Mr Pearson nor Ms Hume could ever be called fans of Pasteur or his ‘science’. They both declare their intentions openly; that they wish to contribute to the undoing of a massive medical an...

“Empathy is a choice, and it’s a vulnerable one.” Empathy requires us to recall or reflect on feelings that are uncomfortable. We’re recognizing feelings like frustration, nervousness, or confusion, and trying to take that perspective with another person. Choosing empathy vs sympathy or complete disengagement is often more challenging in the short term, but the long-term reward is much greater. 0:...

Become the authority in your own life. Change the way you see the world, interact with other people, and understand your own actions and motivations. Exploration of the new phase humanity has entered: we are evolving from a species that understands power as the ability to manipulate and control—external power—into a species that understands power as the alignment of the personality with the soul,...

You may be aware that there is a deeper understanding of life than what you may see on the outside. It can be a subtle tug at your heart or a pattern of thinking that goes beyond your reason and logic. This gut feeling is intuition. The ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather...

Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more—more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for t...

Biohacking can be described as do-it-yourself biology. For many “biohackers,” this consists of making small, incremental lifestyle changes to make small improvements in your health and well-being. Biohacks promise anything from quick weight loss to enhanced brain function. But the best biohacking results come from being well-informed and cautious about what works for your body. #biohacking #topbio...

From distorted graphs and biased samples to misleading averages, there are countless statistical dodges that lend cover to anyone with an ax to grind or a product to sell. With abundant examples and illustrations, Darrell Huff’s lively and engaging primer clarifies the basic principles of statistics and explains how they’re used to present information in honest and not-so-honest ways. Keep in mind...

Just as important as defining what forgiveness is, so is understanding of what forgiveness is not. Experts who study or teach forgiveness make clear that when you forgive, you do not gloss over or deny the seriousness of an offense against you. Forgiveness does not mean forgetting, nor does it mean condoning or excusing offenses. Though forgiveness can help repair a damaged relationship, it doesn’...

A fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visit...

Our ability as a society to separate truth from lies is under unprecedented threat. Most people have trouble recognizing false statements. Some polygraph tests are better at it yet are far from perfect. Researchers are trying to use imaging methods to distinguish truth from lies. Intensified activity in the prefrontal cortex may be an indicator of the process by which we decide to lie or not—but i...

Silence offers profound benefits, many of which we aren't even aware of. Besides giving our ears a break, silence has been shown to offer significant health advantages that boost overall well-being. From a physiological standpoint, silence helps lower blood pressure, which can help prevent heart attacks. Discover the importance of silence. #silence FIND OUT which HUMAN NEED is driving all of your...

Spiritual emergencies are moments of messy awakening, crises of ego dissolution and rebirth that are often misunderstood and unskillfully managed by materialist psychiatry. As more Westerners meditate and are drawn to psychedelics to foster their psycho-spiritual growth, mystical experiences are becoming more common―yet some of them will be disturbing and difficult. There is an urgent need for our...

The Art of Listening and HOW TO BE BETTER at it Improve Your Listening Skills: Listening is an art we should all take the effort to improve because we spend so much time doing it. It’s the key to building high quality relationships with others, both professionally and personally. And the good news is that we have lots of opportunities to do this every single day in every single conversation we hav...

Season 3 Book 32: Super Life by #DarinOlien Five Simple Fixes that will make YOU Healthy, Fit and Awesome. An entirely new way of thinking about health and wellbeing by identifying what Olien calls the life forces: Quality Nutrition, Hydration, Detoxification, Oxygenation, and Alkalization. He demonstrates in great detail how to maintain these processes, thereby allowing our bodies to do the rest....

Expecting life to always turn out the way you want is guaranteed to lead to disappointment because life will not always turn out the way you want it to. And when those unfulfilled expectations involve the failure of other people to behave the way you expect them to the disappointment also involves resentment. Where do we get the sense of power to think that merely expecting others to behave the wa...

Leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way -- and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY. How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action "S...

Mind, Body, Soul. We have all heard this, but what does this mean. The Mind Body Soul Complex, what is it? Harmony in the soul mind and body is the key to ultimate wellness and happiness, and as such, attaining this balance should be an important goal for every individual. However, most people rarely give it a thought. 0:00 Intro 1:39 Connection to Nature's Wisdom 3:11 The BODY - Nerves, Organs, B...

Find out the best time to do over 50 different activities. Packed with fascinating facts, fun personality quizzes, and easy-to-follow guidelines, The Power Of When is the ultimate "lifehack" to help you achieve your goals. Most advice centers on what to do, or how to do it, and ignores the when of success. But exciting new research proves there is a right time to do just about everything, based on...

People experience shame for a number of reasons. Shame is often felt when someone experiences, commits, or associates with a shameful act. Perhaps the most common precursor of shame is trauma. Shame, is a powerful emotion that has the potential to shape peoples’ lives in significant ways. 0:00 Intro 1:41 Ways Shame Shapes Peoples Lives 4:37 Ways Out of Shame 6:29 Shame vs. Guild vs. Embarrassment...

Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this crisis. It shows that once we understand the real causes, we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions – ones that offer real...

Muscle testing (applied kinesiology) is based on the theory that any major muscle will respond to electrical/energetic shifts that go off in the body. Since everything has a frequency, it is theorized that the body naturally reacts in congruence or incongruence (match or mismatch) to anything it’s exposed to. 0:00 Intro 1:03 Muscle Testing Systems Evaluation 3:51 Study Says Testing Tells the Truth...

Why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining. Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspec...