PNTV: The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb (
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Here are 5 of my favorite Big Ideas from The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb. Hope you enjoy!
Alex Korb is a neuroscientist in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. (Go Bruins!) He’s also a great writer. As per the sub-title, the book is all about “Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time.” It’s REALLY good. Inspiring. Scientifically grounded. Simple. Practical. A winning formula for a great book!
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Big Idea 1: EXERCISE - YOUR BRAIN
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- +1: The Bridge | Between Goals and Accomplishments (#821) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/the-...
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- +1: How to Sidestep Depression | Did You Know There’s a Magic # of Steps? (#1064) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/how-...
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Big Idea 2: SET GOALS + MAKE DECISIONS
- +1: Make Decisions | But Only If You Want to Feel Better (#1225) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/make...
- +1: Victim vs. Creator | Two Questions: ""Why Me?"" vs. ""What Do I Want?""(#76) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/vict...
Big Idea 3: + HABITS = REPETITION
- +1: We Are What We Repeatedly Do | Excellence, then, Is Not an ACT but a Habit (#469) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/we-a...
- Optimizing Algorithms 101 → www.optimize.me/master-class/...
- PNTV: Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg → www.optimize.me/philosophers-...
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- +1: Win or Learn | Three Questions to Ask after a Disappointing Performance (#96) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/win-...
- +1: "Needs work!" | What to Say to Yourself When Things Don’t Go as Planned (#31) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/need...
- +1: Mistake-Learner’s High | Enjoy It as You Pursue Audacious Goals and Endlessly Evolve (#370) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/mist...
Big Idea 4: BIOFEEDBACK
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- +1: iHunch | What Not to Do If You Want to Be Powerful (#166) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/ihunch/
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Big Idea 5: POWER OF OTHERS
- +1: The Power of Others | Rely on It! (#1226) → www.optimize.me/plus-one/the-...
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It was the ‘make decisions’ one that drew me in. Somewhere in my life journey I started overthinking. Make a decision and move on. Amen to that!
Brilliant summary Brian. Thank you
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Love it so cool you back on these
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thank you for the helpful summary!
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How do we get out of depression right now, in the middle of a pandemic,when most of the little things that we could do the break the vicious cycle are forbidden? Meeting people, going to the gym or sometimes even walking?(depending on the country...)
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A wonderful presentation and a beautiful video that follows you from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Continue publishing these videos. I hope that you will be translated into Arabic.
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Me too greeting from Saudi 👋
Some of this is really helpful. Feeling somewhat depressed and deflated after a car accident this weekend where I was on the way back from a fitness certification training and nodded off at the wheel going 70mph. Thankfully, noone was injured, but I've been nodding off so much more since I quit smoking. For as long as I can remember, since my teens at least, I have felt more tired than I should, regardless of how much sleep I got, but VERY rarely used to nod off or nap in my smoking days. Now I nap and nod off all the time. I quit smoking after over a decade and for over 2 years have been waking up at 5am to start my day with red light therapy, reading something short, constructive and digestible like the Daily Stoic, and a workout, continually expanding my peak fitness. I am proud of my progress, and feel great for 4 hours or so, but most days it's mentally painful just to stay awake, much less process things and think proactively/productively, and I'm so tired of being tired. I have just been trying to nap when I can and accept my tiredness as an aspect of chasing my better self, rejecting the idea of talking to a doctor about medication as a shortcut or weakness, but the accident was a reality check. I know I need to use this as an upward spiral "learner's mistake" moment, but often sleeping more is not an option, if I am going to stick with my routine. I am EXTREMELY blessed for the consequences to not have been worse, but I am going to see a doctor about it today. I have some addictive tendencies, so I worry that this will be a path of rationalization to an unecessary, sub-optimal dependency, but I am also a single father, primary parent of two wonderful daughters, and I cannot ever nod off at the wheel again -- for our sake or whoever else's world I could potentially affect tragically.
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Know this is a year old but have you had your ferritin levels checked? Correcting low iron stores is a common solution if theyre showing < 40 (iron deficiency without anemia shows in ferritin levels not iron or haemoglobin) , anemia is just the next stage of that , + this can get worse with long exercise sessions over time if not aware of levels
Check out dr kalesh functional medicine chronic fatigue remedies. Supps and detox from heavy metals etc.
Cool thing is I just read this book few days ago....
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When you do that Plus 1 on whinning "Use your words El & EM"
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If I'm too calm and don't feel worried even when really bad things r about to happen... do I make myself start breathing through my mouth? Lol 🥺
I would love to interview this man
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Your awesome! Much Love 💜
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I think, that he push himself to depression through overpression and overcontrol.
Why did Greece collapse? They had democracy, philosophy, reason and the arts. Their culture imploded!
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