Happy Soul Food Friday!
This week:
The Benefit of Doing Things You’re Bad at with Arthur C. Brooks:
To learn a difficult new skill means risking failure—but it’s also a path to greater happiness. January 30, 2025 Between my university lectures and outside speeches about the science of happiness, I do a lot of public speaking and am always looking for ways to do so with more clarity and fluency. To that end, I regularly give talks in two languages that are not my own—not random languages, of course, but rather those I learned as an adult: Spanish and Catalan…
The Benefit of Doing Things You’re Bad At – The Atlantic
It’s time to change your relationship with dopamine:
Going on a ‘dopamine detox’ probably isn’t going to boost your mood and focus. February 02, 2025 These days the internet is crowded with videos, articles and hacks promising the route to reset your brain’s reward system and rediscover the joy in life’s simple pleasures. One method, in particular, has gained traction and is being touted by influencers as a quick fix for restoring focus and lowering your level of stimulation. It’s called dopamine detoxing
It’s time to change your relationship with dopamine | BBC Science Focus Magazine
The trouble with ‘donating our dopamine’ to our phones, not our friends:
“Smartphones make our alone time feel more crowded than it used to be,” says journalist Derek Thompson. His article in The Atlantic is called “The Anti-Social Century.”
America’s loneliness problem has a cure: Leave your house, put down your phone : NPR
Neuroscience Says This Simple Habit Boosts Your Memory and Improves Cognitive Flexibility:
It’s promising advice for any busy business leader—and tasty, too.
Neuroscience Says This Simple Habit Boosts Your Memory and Improves Cognitive Flexibility
Don’t worry, be happy,
Smile with a little help from your friends,
And stay in the positive!
Love,
Neville
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“The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it.
You have to catch up to it yourself.”– Benjamin Franklin
Happy Soul Food Friday! 