A slimmer physique, improved cardiovascular health, maybe even the ability to turn heads in that bathing suit you’ve been dying to get into?But have you thought about what exercise is doing for your brain?Numerous studies have proven that exercise, particularly the kind that gets your heart pumping, has a whole host of positive effects on the brain, even to the point of enhancing its structure. Here are just five of the ways exercise improves your already miraculous brain.

When you think of exercising more, what trade-offs come to mind?

Exercise stimulates a rich concoction of feel-good chemicals in the brain, including dopamine, serotonin, endocannabinoids, and norepinephrine, according to the American Psychological Association (apa.org), each of which has different roles in managing stress, enhancing feelings of wellbeing, and promoting an active interest in life. If that wasn’t enough, exercise increases the number of dopamine receptors in the brain, meaning not only is your brain producing more of these happy chemicals, but it’s also better at enjoying them.

Exercise Turns Your Brain into a Pleasure Powerhouse

According to the Greater Good Science Center (greatergood.berkeley.edu), exercise is so good at delivering pleasure to the brain that it’s successfully used to help patients suffering from the ravaging aftereffects of drug abuse. Additionally, it’s estimated that we all lose approximately 13 percent of our dopamine receptors each decade, says Greater Good, causing us to experience diminishing pleasure in everyday life as we age. Exercise can reverse this.

Harvard Health Publishing (health.harvard.edu) reports that exercise sparks neurogenesis, or the formation of new neurons, in the brain. We’re all born with approximately 100 billion neurons in the brain, which regenerate at a fast rate in our childhoods but slow as we mature. It was once thought that this eventually stopped completely, but it’s since been proven that neurogenesis can last a lifetime.

Exercise Stimulates Neurogenesis

In a study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital (massgeneral.org), doctors experimented with lab rats to see if medicine could ignite neurogenesis. While it could, the neurons died before they had any potential. But when the rats were put through courses of exercises, not only did neurogenesis take place, the neurons were healthy and strong enough to last.

Speaking of neurogenesis, the hippocampus is one area of the brain that continues to create new neurons throughout our lifetimes, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov). The hippocampus is integral to learning and memory formation. Multiple studies have shown that adults who exercise perform better on memory, learning, and decision-making tasks than their counterparts who don’t exercise.

Exercise Improves Memory and Learning

Exercise is one of the leading forms of therapy for people suffering from age-related dementia and Alzheimer’s, says the APA, because of its documented boost to memory function. In fact, studies have shown that the hippocampus can increase in volume by 1 percent after a year of regular exercise.

The cerebral cortex is the outer covering of the largest part of the brain, the cerebrum. The cerebral cortex is associated with high-level, conscious thought patterns, including emotion, evaluation, reasoning, and language. And according to Johns Hopkins Medicine (hopkinsmedicine.org), exercise can thicken the cerebral cortex.

Exercise Increases the Thickness of the Cerebral Cortex

Researchers speculate that some of the reason for this is that exercise, particularly aerobic, involves continually making split-second decisions. If you’re running, you’re always managing your environment so you don’t twist your ankle or tangle with a car. If you’re at the gym, you’re keeping your balance and monitoring your levels of exhaustion and thirst. In other words, your mind is working just as hard as your body is and the result is a thicker, stronger cerebral cortex.

Neuroplasticity is a big word to describe how adaptable the brain is. From birth, the brain is malleable, says Scientific American (scientificamerican.com), able to change both physically and functionally in response to events like learning, new environments, injury, and disease. The greater its neuroplasticity, the better the brain can adjust to life events, from acquiring new job skills to relearning how to walk after an accident.

Exercise Improves Neuroplasticity

Even just one workout session can elevate your brain’s neuroplasticity, according to PsyPost (psypost.org). The reasons are currently believed to be because exercise encourages the growth of new neural connections in the brain, and that exercise has a suppressant effect on gamma-Aminobutyric acid, or GABA, which inhibits certain types of neurotransmitters.

The CDC recommends getting 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week, or 75 minutes of intense exercise, or a combination of both. This should be spread out evenly over the course of the week. Talk with your doctor first to eliminate any concerns and to help create a plan that works best for you.

Ready to jump into an exercise program

This would tell you the correlation of mental and physical well-being.

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<a href="https://geni.us/live-by-free-audiobook">Algorithms to Live By</a> offers shortcuts and hacks to help streamline your life. Algorithms are inserted into computers and other forms of technology to solve problems. However, there is no reason that we cannot use algorithms in our everyday lives. Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths describe how algorithms have been used for centuries. Plus, how we use specific algorithms daily. However, some algorithms are more efficient than others. This book provides an outline of the algorithms that can help make your life easier and more enjoyable.

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Unless we’re willing to spend eons striving for perfection every time we encounter a hitch, hard problems demand that instead of spinning our tires we imagine easier versions and tackle those first. When applied correctly, this is not just wishful thinking, not fantasy or idle daydreaming. It’s one of our best ways of making progress.

Some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same.

Most people associate algorithms with computers and other forms of technology. However, the word actually dates back to the ninth century. The Persian mathematician, Muhammad Al-Khwarizmi, is the first person to use the word ‘algorithm.’ However, the use of concepts like algorithms dates back to the Sumerians. The Sumerians were a civilization that existed four thousand years ago. This civilization used a finite number of steps to solve problems. We use a finite number of steps to complete multiple tasks each day. Importantly, this is also the technique at the heart of algorithms.

Algorithms Do Not Just Apply to Computers

As long as a set of finite steps are followed, then anything can be an algorithm. For example, a recipe is a type of algorithm. It involves a series of instructions to obtain the desired result. Writing up a list of pros and cons for doing something is an Intuitive Algorithm. We might consider these algorithms as more subjective than computer algorithms. Still, these algorithms use the same process and reach the same solution. In both instances, when certain conditions are met, the next step is made in the process.

As well as telling us how to conduct a task step-by-step, algorithms can tell us when to stop doing a task. As humans, we struggle to know when to stop searching for something. Additionally, we have cognitive biases that impact our choices when searching.

Algorithms Can Tell Us When to Stop

The authors of this book suggest that the Optimal Stopping Algorithm is the solution to this. If there are 100 options, this algorithm will state that you should look at the first 37 without taking any of them. Use these first 37 as a standard. Subsequently, whichever item meets these standards should be taken. This algorithm will not guarantee the best result. However, it will mean you have a much higher chance of acquiring an item significantly better than just guessing. It does not matter what you are searching for: 37% of the total is where you draw your standard.

As well as advising us on when we should stop searching, algorithms can also tell us when to explore something new. In the book, the authors give the example of a slot machine. Some people will just sit at the machine until they win. However, there is always a thought in people’s minds whether they should simply walk away despite losing lots of money. Based on the alternative name for slot machines, this dilemma is called the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem.

Algorithms Can Tell Us When to Start

One strategy often used by gamblers is to stay if they are winning and shift if they are losing. However, this isn’t a logical way of choosing when to explore something new. Alternatively, a better method is to use the Upper Confidence Bound Algorithm.

Here are the steps to this algorithm, applied to gambling machines:<ol><li>Find a machine that offers the best expected value. In this case, it is the machine with the biggest jackpot as you are unaware of probabilities.</li><li>While playing, make sure that you keep track of the real outcome (how much money you’re winning). The real outcome should be compared with how much you were expecting to win by this point.</li><li>If the real outcome is consistently lower than your expected outcome, you should move on to another machine. This machine should be the one with the second-biggest jackpot.</li><li>Repeat the process.</li></ol>

The authors of this book explain that organized chaos can be fine. As long as you know where everything is, you will be productive. However, if your filing system is not efficiently organized, there are algorithms to improve your organization.

Algorithms Can Help Us Organize Our Work

The authors describe three algorithms, specifically:<ol><li>Bubble Sort</li></ol>﻿This algorithm is the least efficient. With this method, you organize one pair at a time. Then, you repeat this process over and over until everything is sorted. The authors give an example of the bubble sorting algorithm for alphabetizing books. With a disorganized shelf, you would start with the letter A. You would compare the first two books and sort these two alphabetically. Then, you compare the item that is now the second book with the third book. This process is repeated until you have reached the end of the collection.

The insertion sort method is far more efficient if you have to sort a substantial amount of items. If you consider the book analogy again, the insertion sort method would involve taking all the books off the shelf. Then, placing them back one-by-one, ensuring that the books are placed in the correct order each time you place a book.

2. Insertion Sort

Finally, the merge sort method involves dividing everything into multiple piles. Each pile should be sorted from A to Z. Then, these piles should be merged.

3. Merge Sort

Thrashing is a very recognizable human state. If you’ve ever had a moment where you wanted to stop doing everything just to have the chance to write down everything you were supposed to be doing, but couldn’t spare the time, you’ve thrashed.

Scheduling our lives can be highly complex and is often a daily challenge. As well as work demands, multiple other life demands make fitting everything difficult. However, some algorithms can help improve how you schedule your life. <ul><li>The Earliest Due Date Algorithm – A straightforward algorithm. The 1st task you complete is the one with the nearest deadline.</li><li>Moore’s Algorithm – It recommends skipping the task that requires the most time. Instead, you should work toward finishing more tasks overall. This algorithm is more effective when you do not have enough time to complete every task.</li></ul>

Algorithms Can Help Us Schedule Our Lives

The authors advise you avoid priority inversion at all costs. Priority Inversion is when you focus on too many small tasks, and none of them end up getting done. You should be aiming to solely focus on one task at a time rather than multitasking.

If you want to be a good intuitive Bayesian—if you want to naturally make good predictions, without having to think about what kind of prediction rule is appropriate—you need to protect your priors. Counterintuitively, that might mean turning off the news.

Predicting probable outcomes is viable when using the correct algorithms. Predicting probable outcomes based on algorithms dates back to 18th century England. Reverend Thomas Bayes developed a simple way of predicting future outcomes. The authors of this book apply Bayes’ theorem to lottery scratch tickets. It recommends people who buy scratch tickets consider the prevalence of winning tickets in circulation. With this as an assumption, it is possible to calculate the probability of your tickets’ specific results.

Algorithms Can Help You Predict the Future

As with many things, the more information you have, the more precise you will be. One method that utilizes vast amounts of information to predict future outcomes is the phenomenon’s distribution pattern. Other names for this distribution are the normal distribution or bell curve. If something is normally distributed, you can assume it will be characterized by features in the middle rather than extremes when you encounter it.

Data overload is often considered in relation to a classic thought experiment. In this thought experiment, two generals are preparing to launch a joint attack on a city. This city is located in a fortified valley. These generals are on the two hills either side of the valley. So, the only way they can simultaneously attack is by agreeing on an exact time. On top of this, they can only communicate by sending individuals through the valley where their enemies lie. This thought experiment was used by computer scientists as a way of determining algorithms for safe message transmission.

Algorithms Prevent Data Overload

This was the first method created. This solution involved sending multiple messengers with the hope that one would slip through undetected. However, sending too many messengers can lead to an overload. With regard to computers, this would be a server overload.

Method I – Retransmitted Till Breakdown

If a server overload is created, then exponential back-off is a method that should work. Instead of frantically hitting refresh, you could wait a few minutes for the traffic to ease. The exponential part relates to how long you wait between refreshes. The authors suggest waiting twice as long each time you are given an error message when refreshing.

Method II – Exponential Backoff

This one hopes to prevent the overload from happening. It determines the max. amount of data a network can handle. It starts by only sending one package of data. Then, if this is fine, it sends double the amount. It continues this process until it reaches the point of overload. This can be applied to your everyday life. Too much info. can lead to your brain overloading. ∴ you should start by introducing small amounts of information and test how far you can go before your brain is overloaded. Once you know the limit, you'll have a better understanding of when you should stop working on a task.

Method III – Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease

Even the best strategy sometimes yields bad results—which is why computer scientists take care to distinguish between “process” and “outcome.” If you followed the best possible process, then you’ve done all you can, and you shouldn’t blame yourself if things didn’t go your way.

Complicated scenarios often require complex algorithms to fully understand what is happening. However, algorithms are limited in the complexity with which they can be applied. The issue is that, when predicting something complex, you will be tempted to add variables until the algorithm can fully explain your data. This includes explaining the errors in the data. However, doing this is problematic as it leads to something called over-fitting. You have made the model highly complicated and specific to the data you are using. Hence, it cannot be applied flexibly to other data.

Algorithms Do Have Their Limits

The greater the uncertainty, the bigger the gap between what you can measure and what matters, the more you should watch out for overfitting – that is, the more you should prefer simplicity.

Algorithms let us go for ‘good enough’ rather than always striving for perfection. If we consistently use algorithms in our lives, we will benefit greatly and can start to relax more. Our brains are built like computers. Therefore, like computers, we should start complementing them with algorithms.

Concluding Points

Compelling and entertaining, Algorithms to Live By is packed with practical advice about how to use time, space, and effort more efficiently. And it's a fascinating exploration of the workings of computer science and the human mind

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

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An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decades. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths show how algorithms developed for computers also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one’s inbox to peering into the future, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

Brian Christian is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Brian Christian has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Brian Christian's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Brian Christian

Tom Griffiths is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Tom Griffiths has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Tom Griffiths's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Algorithms to Live By

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

1. Temperance

Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

2. Silence

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

3. Order

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

4. Resolution

Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.

5. Frugality

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

6. Industry

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

7. Sincerity

Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

8. Justice

Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

9. Moderation

Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.

10. Cleanliness

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

11. Tranquility

Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.

12. Chastity

13. Humility

My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone thro' the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arranged them with that view, as they stand above.

How to acquire these virtues, Franklin advised:

WikipediaIn "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," we find a list of thirteen virtues "all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable."

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Benjamin Franklin Thought Everyone Should Possess These 13 Virtues 

Maladaptive daydreaming is when a person spends an excessive amount of time preoccupied with elaborate daydreams, and often prefers these fantasies to their real life. While not currently recognized as a mental health condition, research suggests that this problem does exist, and that it shares many of the same features as addictive, impulse control, and obsessive compulsive disorders.

Maladaptive Daydreaming

symptoms may include one or several of the following: - highly vivid and immersive daydreams- abnormally long daydreams that are hard to escape- an inability to carry out daily tasks- daydreams that are triggered by external events or stimuli, such as watching a movie or listening to music- sleep disruption and insomnia- repetitive and unconscious movements when daydreaming, such as rocking back and forth or twitching

Are You A Maladaptive Daydreamer?

Maladaptive daydreaming, for starters, is addictive. Everything is happening there and then, You hardly have any idea of reality. You make facial expressions i.e grin, laugh or even feel like crying , which will be noticed by the people around you , who will then rate you “crazy” or “weird” , leading you social isolation, which further pushes you into daydreaming.It is very elaborate , has plots equivalent to novels or movies ( mostly better) and once triggered , it is nearly impossible to stop. You can't just shake it off. Secondly, it can be triggered by a lot of things..

There is no fixed solution for Maladaptive daydreaming but a few steps which can help you :Identify and Reduce TriggersStart Treating the Underlying TraumaHave Direct Open Dialogues with YourselfSwitch Gears Into Analytic ActionCount in a Foreign Language or Recite a poemNarrate Your ActionsTrack Your TimeTalk to Your Doctor

Get Rid Of It.

Maladaptive daydreaming involves complex daydreams that interfere with daily life. They may occur with ADHD and other conditions. Learn more.

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Maladaptive Daydreaming: A beautiful but unhealthy escape from reality. 

You earn self-esteem with consistent action — by regularly doing things you can be proud of.

4 Simple Ways to Improve Your Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is your reputation with yourself.

A common trait among people with low self-esteem is that they over promise and underdeliver on their personal goals.By setting an unrealistic goal for yourself, you’re increasing the odds that you fail and then subsequently feel badly about yourself — which only reinforces your already low self-esteem.

1. Don’t make promises to yourself that you can’t keep.

Now, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with asking for help. In fact, the ability to ask for help when you really need it is a powerful skill that more people should have instead of trying to lone-wolf every problem they encounter.Resist the urge to immediately ask for help. Make sure you’re doing your best to solve the problem or manage the situation yourself before you outsource that to someone else.This will create a positive cycle of action and confidence that will keep your self-esteem at a healthy level — regardless of whether you were able to solve the problem yourself or with help.

2. Ask for help when you need it, not because you want it.

When a painful thought or memory pops into mind, it’s tempting to start engaging with it — to have a conversation with it that leads to dozens if not hundreds of similarly negative thoughts.Healthy self-esteem depends on your ability to manage your attention well. And a big part of that means not letting yourself be a victim of your own thoughts.Notice your thoughts. Say hello to them. But don’t feel like you have to have a conversation with them.

3. Stop having conversations with unproductive thoughts.

Do the right thing, even when it’s hard.We admire people who are able to put aside their feelings and emotions (fear, discomfort, popularity) and choose their values instead.This is the source of our admiration for our heroes and it’s also the source of our esteem for ourselves.

4. Trust your values, not your emotions.

It’s good to listen to your emotions. But to trust them unthinkingly is a recipe for unhappiness and low self-esteem.

Trusting your value of courage is much more likely to lead to healthy self-esteem than impulsively trusting your feeling of anxiety.Trusting your value of compassion is much more likely to lead to healthy self-esteem than blindly following your anger.

Your values, on the other hand, are far more trustworthy.

When you have healthy self-esteem, you basically like yourself.

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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor">Frederick Winslow Taylor</a> is the creator of the science of management. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker">Peter Drucker</a> attributes almost all the important management innovations in the last century:<ul><li>industrial engineering</li><li>work enrichment</li><li>job rotation</li><li>assembly line</li><li>total quality management</li><li>quality circle</li><li>continuous improvement</li><li>lean manufacturing</li></ul>“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing.” - Peter Drucker

The Maker of the Modern World (Part 1)

<ul><li>For hundreds of years there had been no increase in the ability of workers to turn out goods or to move goods.</li><li>Over the long run, productivity determines what governments societies adopt.</li><li>If productivity drops for too long, revolutions happen.</li></ul>

More productive without working more hours

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

Most people into productivity (including myself) had never heard of the most important breakthrough in the history of productivity or the person behind it.I wanted to understand why the 50x shift happened in the first place and how to replicate it with knowledge work instead of just manual work. After all, who doesn’t want a 50x productivity boost?

The Greatest Productivity Hack 

The principles of scientific management “can be applied with equal force to all social activities: to the management of our homes; the management of our farms; the management of the business of our tradesmen, large and small; of our churches, our philanthropic institutions, our universities, and our governmental departments.”

An entire week's work in less than an hour

In 1977, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor">Frederick Winslow Taylor</a> was ranked the #1 contributor ever to management thought and practice by a panel of business and economics historians beating out the likes of John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Sloan, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.If you read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker">Drucker</a>, there is no confusion about the root cause of the productivity revolution. It all goes back to one person — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor">Frederick Winslow Taylor</a>.

The Maker of the Modern World (Part 2)

Taylor was later diagnosed with the eye condition of Astigmatism. A condition which today is easy to diagnose and fix. Straining to focus on words was what caused the headaches.Taylor dropped out. So, by a weird quirk of fate, Taylor went to the shop floor as an apprentice machinist rather than Harvard to become a lawyer.

The Maker of the Modern World (Part 3)

The Ultimate RULE of Productivity and why most of what you know about productivity is incorrect. 

Peter Drucker, one of the most respected management thinkers in history, stated these words at the close of the 20th century. Drucker isn’t just talking about 50x productivity for the smartest…

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao TzuThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.F -FriedrichNietzscheFortune favors the bold.– VirgilLife is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. -John LennonWhen the going gets tough, the tough get going. - Joe KennedyYou must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma GandhiYou only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -Mae WestI think, therefore I am. – René DescartesTough times never last but tough people do. - Robert H. SchullerGet busy living or get busy dying. - Stephen King

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Looking for great quotes? Check out the most famous quotes of all time from leaders, celebrities, and icons to find a new favorite today.

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The Most Famous Quotes of All Time | Keep Inspiring Me

1. Seeing an old friend2. Hearing a song that reminds you of your past3. A bit of good news for a loved one/friend4. Getting a thank you from someone5. Doing something that makes someone else laugh/smile6. Eating comfort food7. Getting into bed with freshly washed sheets8. Finding a ten pound note in an old pair of jeans9. Looking back at old photographs10. Seeing a funny video online

REVEALED: The top 50 things most likely to make YOU smile

11. Winning a tenner on the lottery12. Walks in the country13. Getting a nice message from a loved one14. Waking up on a sunny day15. Sitting in the sun16. Cuddles17. Listening to your favourite song18. Booking a holiday19. Landing at the holiday airport20. Being surprised with flowers or chocolates

21. Someone offering an elderly person their seat on the bus/train22. Someone giving you their car parking ticket when you arrive in a car park23. Fitting in to a pair of jeans you thought were too small24. Finding a bargain in the sales25. Old people holding hands26. Someone telling you you’ve lost weight27. Bumping into someone you haven’t seen for ages28. Getting a quiet moment to myself29. Chocolate30. The smell of freshly baked bread

31. Sunday dinners32. Finding out your children have done well at school33. People carrying their babies34. Making a new friend35. Hearing your child say their first words/smile36. Waking up to find out it has snowed overnight37. Driving a car with the window down on a sunny day38. Finding out someone likes you39. Getting a new hair-do40. A good hair day

41. Passing a driving test42. Getting praise from your boss after working hard on something43. Getting spontaneous kiss or cuddle from your children44. Getting the answers right when watching a TV quiz45. Sleeping children46. Babies47. Swimming in the sea48. Waking up on a Saturday morning and realising it is the weekend49. Having a girlie/lads night out50. Being made a cup of tea

SEEING an old friend, hearing a song that reminds you of your past and getting into a pair of jeans you thought were too small are among the 50 things that make us smile, new research reveals.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝟻𝟶 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚎:)

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Thought of the Day

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">How Far You’ve Come</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Obstacle You’ve Overcome</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Time You’ve Failed</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Your Desire To Grow</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Choice You’ve Made</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Taking The First Step</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Time You’ve Helped Someone</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Time You’ve Taken Care Of Yourself</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Being Honest With Yourself And Others</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Accepting Others As They Are</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Being A Good Friend</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Every Time You’ve Made Someone Smile</li></ol>

Be proud of these things:

Let's stop for a moment and look around ourselves. Let's reflect on the life that we live. Reflect on our choices, our struggles, our achievements and what we have lost.

12 Things That You Should Be Truly Proud Of | Steven Webb

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