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🔥 Your comfort zone isn't keeping you safe - it's slowly killing your potential.

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3. This is Why You Are Not Disciplined - https://youtu.be/aXw9647txUQ

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0:00 - Introduction

1:34 - Chapter 1: "Your Brain's Ancient Programming"

3:13 - Chapter 2: "The Antifragile Advantage"

4:55 - Chapter 3: "The Micro-Discomfort Method"

6:31 - Chapter 4: "Reframing Resistance"

8:10 - Chapter 5: "The Progressive Overload Principle"

9:47 - Chapter 6: "Emotional Resilience Toolkit"

11:27 - Chapter 7: "The Compound Effect of Courage”

13:11 - Chapter 8: "Productive Failure Framework”

14:27 - Chapter 9: "Building Your Challenge Ritual"

15:48 - Chapter 10: “The Community Advantage”

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS

1/ Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

https://amzn.to/3IFOp8p

2/ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

https://amzn.to/40xBFqw

3/ Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

https://amzn.to/4kRNlM4

4/ Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

https://amzn.to/4o8ktC8

5/ Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control by Albert Bandura

https://amzn.to/4m8dpnaachievement.

6/ The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

https://amzn.to/4501dxH

7/ Emotional Agility by Susan David

https://amzn.to/451UUK4

8/ Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke

https://amzn.to/3UsTRhm

9/ Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick Hanson

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10/ Atomic Habits by James Clear

https://amzn.to/40UwukL

RESEARCH PAPERS

1/ The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance by K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Romer

https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/DeliberatePractice(PsychologicalReview).pdf

Establishes that expert performance results from prolonged efforts to improve through effortful activities rather than innate talent.

2/ Comfort zone orientation: Individual differences in the motivation to move beyond one's comfort zone by Nona C. Kiknadze, Mark R. Leary

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.111024

Research examining individual differences in valuing activities that push people outside their comfort zones.

3/ Effect of stress inoculation training on the levels of stress, anxiety and depression by Fahimeh Kashani et al.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4462062/

Clinical trial demonstrating how controlled exposure to stress through training reduces anxiety and builds resilience.

4/ Hormesis Defined by Mark P. Mattson

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2248601/

Defines hormesis as adaptive responses to moderate stress that strengthen biological systems.

5/ The Ability to Regulate Emotion is Associated with Greater Well-Being by Stéphane Côté et al.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4175372/

Shows that laboratory-measured emotion regulation ability predicts real-world well-being and success.

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Life Explained in 15 minutes

🎯Deep dive into the counterintuitive truths about human psychology, backed by real neuroscience and behavioral research.

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1. What actually matters in your 50s - https://youtu.be/jx0Z9nZJ73U

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3. What actually matters in your 40s - https://youtu.be/jRsZaza6AXI

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0:00 - Introduction

1:06 - Chapter 1: "The Effort Paradox"

2:17 - Chapter 2: "The Control Paradox"

3:31 - Chapter 3: "Your Brain's Secret Night Shift"

4:48 - Chapter 4: "The Happiness Trap"

6:00 - Chapter 5: "Your Biased Brain"

7:31 - Chapter 6: "The 90/10 Emotional Rule"

8:38 - Chapter 7: "Memory: Your Personal Fiction Writer”

9:55 - Chapter 8: "The 80/20 Life Principle”

11:11 - Chapter 9: "Habit Loops: Your Autopilot System"

12:21 - Chapter 10: “The Compound Effect Secret”

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS

1/ The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

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2/ Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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3/ Atomic Habits by James Clear

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4/ The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

https://amzn.to/3IBzJab

5/ Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

https://amzn.to/3TS1hdV

6/ The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

https://amzn.to/3UnFECo

7/ Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

https://amzn.to/4fjD625

8/ Deep Work by Cal Newport

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9/ The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

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10/ The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson (Audio CD)

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RESEARCH PAPERS

1/ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Relational Frame Theory, and the Third Wave of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies by Steven C. Hayes

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005789404800133

Explains the theoretical foundations behind the "backwards law," showing how over-effort and attachment to control can paradoxically inhibit well-being.

2/ The Glymphatic System: A Novel Component of Fundamental Neurobiology by LM Hablitz, MA Nedergaard

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34526407/

Describes the brain's waste clearance system during sleep.

3/ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy

by Steven C. Hayes

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3635495/

This article provides a detailed analysis of ACT’s development, core psychological processes, and how acceptance, letting go of control, and non-attachment to outcomes promote psychological flexibility.

4/ Creating (False) Memories With Elizabeth Loftus, PhD by Elizabeth Loftus

https://www.psichi.org/page/214EyeSum17dLoftus

Details experiments demonstrating memory’s malleability.

5/ Psychology of Habit by Wendy Wood, Dennis Rünger

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26361052/

Reviews research on habit formation through cue–routine–reward loops and the role of conscious and unconscious processes in everyday behavior.

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What actually matters in your 50s

🌟Discover the revolutionary mindset shifts that transform your 50s from a crisis into an upgrade.

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1. This is Why You Are Not Disciplined - https://youtu.be/aXw9647txUQ

2. What actually matters in your 40s - https://youtu.be/jRsZaza6AXI

3. Why 97% Of Students Study Wrong (Fix This NOW) - https://youtu.be/-JeUd9uQMhc

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0:00 - Introduction

1:09 - Chapter 1: "The Metabolism Decoder"

2:30 - Chapter 2: "Strength Currency"

3:45 - Chapter 3: "The Brain Advantage"

5:03 - Chapter 4: "The Relationship Portfolio"

6:24 - Chapter 5: "The Purpose Pivot"

7:57 - Chapter 6: "Financial Evolution"

9:15 - Chapter 7: "The Time Redesign”

10:25 - Chapter 8: "The Health Span Strategy”

11:48 - Chapter 9: "The Legacy Framework"

13:02 - Chapter 10: “The Integration Practice”

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS

1/ The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 by Jonathan Rauch

https://amzn.to/4lRnTY4

2/ Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge, M.D.

https://amzn.to/4kIoA52

3/ The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner

https://amzn.to/4kvjjxm

4/ Successful Aging by Daniel J. Levitin

https://amzn.to/4eJIbQR

5/ Strength Training Past 50 by Wayne L. Westcott & Thomas R. Baechle

https://amzn.to/3GjATGP

6/ The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

https://amzn.to/4kuyoz9

7/ Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett

https://amzn.to/3U3ZyCf

8/ Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García

https://amzn.to/4eFCWBy

9/ Atomic Habits by James Clear

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10/ The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister

https://amzn.to/4lnwkKA

RESEARCH PAPERS

1/ Purpose in Life Is Associated With Mortality Among Community-Dwelling Older Persons by Patricia A. Boyle et al.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2740716/

Demonstrates that having a greater sense of purpose in life.

2/ Why Social Relationships Are Important for Physical Health: A Systems Approach to Understanding and Modifying Risk and Protection by Julianne Holt-Lunstad

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29035688/

Reviews evidence that strong social connections have powerful influences on health and longevity.

3/ Trajectories of Normal Cognitive Aging by Timothy A. Salthouse

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6367038/

Explores the patterns of cognitive aging, distinguishing between normal cognitive changes and those associated with pathology.

4/ 'Small Changes' to Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors for Weight Management by Andrew P Hills, et al.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5644785/

Analyzes how incremental, sustained changes in daily habits can lead to significant improvements in health.

5/ Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review by Julianne Holt-Lunstad et al.

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000316

Meta-analysis showing that people with stronger social relationships have a 50% increased likelihood of survival.

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