There are 2 kinds of health rewards: - Deepstash
How To Stop Wasting Time

Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection

Creating a productive schedule

Avoiding procrastination

Prioritizing tasks effectively

How To Stop Wasting Time

Discover 99 similar ideas in

It takes just

12 mins to read

There are 2 kinds of health rewards:

There are 2 kinds of health rewards:

  • Hedoniasuperficial pleasures such as looking good. They are more concrete and often short-lived.
  • Eudaimonia: a sense of meaning and purpose that contributes to overall well-being. 

111

348 reads

MORE IDEAS ON THIS

<p>We tend to focus on superfi...

We tend to focus on superficial rewards to motivate ourselves to achieve our goals. But rewards that contribute to our overall well-being are more helpful in maintaining our motivation in the long term for the lifestyle changes we desire.

55

275 reads

<p>It doesn’t matter whether y...

It doesn’t matter whether your goal is weight loss, exercise, normal blood sugar, or decreasing stress —simply learning about the value of lifestyle changes is insufficient on its own to help people maintain their goals.

54

324 reads

CURATED FROM

CURATED BY

josie_u

Today, what could be more important than your health? Seriously.

Related collections

More like this

Developing a Sense of Purpose:

Developing a Sense of Purpose:

  • Purpose is “the intention to contribute to the well-being of others”.
  • Both gritty and non-gritty people seek short-term pleasures, but gritty people are drastically more likely to also seek to contribute to others.
  • They us...

Being Prone to Hedonic Adaptation

Certain pleasures are more prone to hedonic adaptation. These pleasures can lift your mood quickly, but their effects can be short-lived. You may also get used to them fairly quickly. For example, If you have the same meal every day, you may find it to be less enjoyable by the end of the week....

Describing happiness and meaning

  • Happiness has more to do with getting what you want and feeling good.
  • Meaning has two major components: The cognitive processing component involves making sense of your experiences. The purpose component is motivat...

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving & library

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Personalized recommendations

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates