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Walking 20,000 steps daily leads to profound physical and mental benefits
Walking 20,000 steps a day for a month significantly improves both physical and mental health. Physically, the challenge enhanced the author’s posture, lean muscle, and sleep quality. Mentally, walking fostered emotional stability, positivity, and a sense of well-being, creating a…
10 keys to happiness, main one is: time is finite, don’t spend it regretting things
Say things now to people you care about.
Spend time with parents and children.
Enjoy daily pleasures instead of waiting for something that may happen later.
Work in a job you love.
Choose your partner carefully.
Exploring more new places is linked to higher happiness
Most people cycle through a small set of familiar places. Research in human mobility suggests that, at any given time, our regular lives revolve around about 25 locations. This pattern seems stable even as the specific places slowly change with…
Sam Harris & Waking up meditation guide
Sam Harris, an American neuroscientist and philosopher, created the Waking Up mobile app to offer a secular path to meditation and the deeper, “non-dual” form of mindfulness he describes in his book Waking Up. The app combines a 28-day introductory…
The ideal free time would be 2 to 5 hours/day
As an individual’s free time increases, so does that person’s sense of well-being – but only up to a point. A study published by the American Psychological Association found that having too much free time can negatively impact well-being. While…
Spending on experiences leads to quicker happiness than possessions
Spending money on experiences rather than material goods tends to bring more immediate and lasting happiness. Researchers Amit Kumar from the University of Texas at Austin, along with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University, conducted experiments showing…
Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way
At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched…