The Overexamined Life

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Recent science has told us that gratitude has the power to do something nothing else in the world can. It can get you off the hedonic treadmill. We go deep into what that means, and look at said science :)

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Here are all the studies with their links:
Emmons & McCullough (2003) — Gratitude journaling, well-being, and physical health
PubMed
Full PDF
Wood, Joseph, Lloyd & Atkins (2009) — Gratitude and sleep quality
PubMed
ScienceDirect
Mills et al. (2015) — Gratitude and heart failure (mood, sleep, inflammation)
PubMed

Redwine et al. (2016) — Gratitude journaling RCT, inflammatory biomarkers, heart rate variability
PubMed
PMC Full Text
Grant & Gino (2010) — Gratitude expressions and prosocial behavior
Harvard Business School
Semantic Scholar
Wood, Froh & Geraghty (2010) — Comprehensive review of gratitude and well-being
ScienceDirect

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If you're a writer, musician, entrepreneur - someone building something in the margins of your real life, this one is for you.

My guest today is Caddicarus: over a million subscribers, nearly 400 million views, and a very honest bloke.

Here's the thing so many of us carry without even realising it, the belief that the moment we hit the number, whatever your number is, life clicks into place. Caddickarus has the number and he still found himself burnt out, hollow, losing the will to make the very thing that made him who he is.

The data doesn't keep you going. The passion keeps you going. The why keeps you going.

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Jonathan Bricker makes the case that shame isn't just a byproduct of addictive behaviour, it's basically the whole engine. We get into why that voice in your head, the really mean one. The really really really really mean one, is actively strengthening the very cravings it's trying to crush. And Jonathan hands us something genuinely useful: a clear, evidence-based way of handling urges that doesn't involve white-knuckling it or hating yourself thin.

Checkout Jonathan’s addiction app, Quitbot, here: https://quitbot.net/

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What if death wasn’t something to fear? What if you were completely at peace? In short, what if dying didn’t suck?

Helen and her team at Preparing the Way (https://preparingtheway.com.au/), walk alongside people in the final chapter of their lives. We talk about what it means to heal into death rather than fight it, why grief doesn't start when someone dies but long before that, what the phrase conscious dying actually means, and Helen very generously lets me use myself as a guinea pig, which results in one of the stranger and more unexpectedly moving conversations I've had on this show.

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This will make all your food taste so good that you just might literally explode right now where you are I'm serious, click this to explode. We all want to explode!

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