The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can see deeper into the Universe than its predecessor, the Hubble. Tuesday, 12 July 2022, will be remembered by many as the date when NASA's JWST released its first full-colour images and spectroscopic data. The images and data from JWST show distant galaxies, the death of stars, and insights into how our Universe began.

The James Webb Space Telescope

The first image shared, called Webb's First Deep Field, shows the SMACS 0723 galaxy cluster. The cluster in the image is as it was 4.6 billion years ago. Astronomer Matt Bothwell excitedly states that "the telescope is quite literally a massive step forward in a quest, thousands of years old, to understand our place in the Universe. A step forward this big only happens a few times per century,

JWST can peer back in time

Pointed towards the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, the telescope's spectrograph revealed the chemical composition of a galaxy located 13.1 billion light-years away. Scientists found oxygen, hydrogen, and neon in this distant galaxy. According to astronomy author Colin Stuart, the spectra show that hydrogen and oxygen, the key ingredients for life, were already around 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Galaxy cluster image revealed key ingredients for life

The JWST images show how spectacular the telescope is. The NGC 3132, the Southern Ring, shows a level of detail and finesse that is astonishing, especially when compared with what came before. The visual beauty of this image shows the Southern Ring Nebula, where gas and dust are expelled by a dying star.

Southern Ring Nebula demonstrates the stunning beauty of the Universe

The image of five galaxies, called Stephan's Quintet, is the largest of JWST's subjects to date, covering about a fifth of our Moon's diameter. There is much going on in this cluster of colliding galaxies, from individual bright young stars, the blazing light emitted by hydrogen falling onto a black hole in one galaxy to the faint glow of dust between the interacting systems. In the corners of the image are countless other smaller and more distant galaxies.

Stephan's Quintet has let us watch faraway galaxies interact

The telescope is expected to run for the next 20 years. So young astronomers, students and children watching these images will work on JWST data in the future. Future astronomers will need to know a lot about physics and chemistry and become experts in computer simulations. "Back in the 1990s, the glorious images from Hubble captivated the world, and the JWST's images will be higher resolution, look deeper, and will look into regions that Hubble could never see", said Ezzy Pearson, astrophysicist and author.

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The James Webb Space Telescope can see deeper into the Universe than its predecessor Hubble, opening up a new era of cosmology.

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Lent is the greatest and most solemn period of fasting on the Christian church’s calendar, leading up to the celebration of Christianity’s most important feast day: Easter.Like most practices rooted in Christianity, the way people observe Lent, or whether they observe it at all, varies wildly depending on their heritage, specific religious tradition, and preferences. Still, there are some rules and guidelines that mark the observance of Lent for Christians who observe the season. And, increasingly, even nonreligious people are picking up the ritual.

Lent Before Easter

Lent technically lasts for 46 days. The period is a mirror of the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness, fasting, praying, and being tempted by Satan before he started his public ministry.The concept behind Lent is that each year, Christians will mimic Jesus’s actions in the wilderness. Lent is sometimes called the “Great Fast.” It’s a period of time in which Christians are meant to give up some comfort or adopt some spiritual practice that leads to self-examination, repentance from sin, and, ultimately, renewal of the soul.

Duration And Meaning of Lent

<ul><li>It depends on the date of Easter. But since roughly the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, the date of Easter has been more or less determined by locating the first full moon following March 21 on the Gregorian calendar. And that’s how the date is determined by Western churches today.</li><li>Orthodox Christians use a slightly different system — which means that when Orthodox Easter (sometimes called Pascha) lands on the same day as Western Easter, it’s coincidental.</li><li>Once the date for Easter is fixed, all you have to do to calculate the other days of observance that fall during the Lenten period.</li></ul>

How The Dates For Lent Are Calculated

<ul><li>Western Christianity typically allows observers to pick whatever they want to fast from, based on a person’s understanding of what earthly comforts distract them from worship.</li><li>Protestants in particular tend to avoid specific church-mandated practices when it comes to fasts.</li><li>Some Catholics keep a more rigid version of the fast. The most notable and well-known practice is abstaining from eating meat on Fridays.</li><li>Orthodox Christianity is far more strict about the fast: observers fast from meat, fish, eggs, dairy products, olive oil, and alcohol every weekday, during lent.</li><li>Some don’t fast at all.</li></ul>

How People Fast During Lent

When did Christians start celebrating Easter? How is it celebrated around the world? Where do Easter eggs and bunnies come from? Here's everything you need to know about the most important Christian holiday

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Ash Wednesday kicks off the most solemn period of fasting on the Christian church’s calendar, leading to the celebration of its most important feast day: Easter.

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The quality of our life and our productivity is directly correlated with our ability to focus. Prof Huberman discusses ways to engineer if:
<ul>
<li>It will take about 6 minutes to settle into work and focus: unless you are very stressed or excited about something, don’t expect to be immediately focused the moment you sit/stand to work</li>
<li>As you optimize the workspace, the latency period (the time it takes to get focused) will decrease</li>
<li>In the first part of your day (0-9 hours after waking), bright lights make for maximum alertness – use bright overhead lights and blue light or ring light in front of you</li>
</ul>

Engineering Focus

<ul>
<li>To be alert and maintain an optimal level of alertness, keep the screen or book at nose level or slightly higher up – ideally while standing or seated</li>
<li>For every 45 minutes you are focused on something, take a walk or relax your eyes and dilate your gaze for 5 minutes to avoid fatigue</li>
<li>Depending on the day, background noise can be a stimulant or hindrance to focus – but generally, the incessant humming of air conditioners or heaters can increase mental fatigue and decrease cognitive performance</li>
</ul>

The Light And The Noise

<ul>
<li>Tip to manage office interruptions: if someone enters your office or workspace, acknowledge their presence but don’t shift your body or reorient yourself</li>
<li>We weren’t designed to sit all day, but we shouldn’t stand all day either – a combination of about 50/50 is best</li>
<li>Active workstations (e.g., cycle or treadmill) can improve attention and cognition for some tasks.</li>
</ul>

Attention & Posture

To build new habits & behaviours, leverage your body’s natural brain and body rhythms.Phases of the day will invoke a shift in mood and mindset that are more conducive to building and keeping habitsPhase 1: 0-8 hours after waking up<ul><li>This phase comes with a more alert state which can be heightened by sunlight viewing, caffeine delaying, fasting, etc.</li><li>Norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine are elevated during this phase</li><li>Healthy cortisol is also elevated in the brain and bloodstream</li><li>This is when you want to take on new habits and behaviours that are challenging for you.</li></ul>

The Phases Of The Day: Phase 1

Phase 2: 9-15 hours after waking upLevels of dopamine, epinephrine, and cortisol start to come downSerotonin starts to rise and lends itself to a relaxed state of being – can be enhanced with a warm bath, yoga nidra, ashwagandhaTaper the amount of bright light (unless it’s sunlight) & start dimming house lights a bitThis is when you want to taper stress level and take on habits and things you are already doing that don’t require a lot of override of limbic friction – e.g., journaling, music

The Phases Of The Day: Phase 2

Phase 3: 16-24 hours after waking up<ul><li>Keep the environment very dark or dim & room temperature low</li><li>The body needs to drop in temperature to fall asleep & stay asleep</li><li>If you wake up in the middle of the night, use as little light as possible</li><li>Deep sleep is critical to wiring neural circuits required for building habits</li></ul>

The Phases Of The Day: Phase 3

Vision and light are important components to set the brain in a high state of alertness
Being in a brightly lit environment can lend itself to increased productivity throughout the day, not just in the morning
Work in a space with as much overhead light as is safely possible
Lighting tip: During the first 0-9 hours of your day, work in a space with as much overhead light as possible to facilitate the release of dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and optimal amounts of cortisol

Workspace Light: The Fundamental Variable Of Workspace Optimization

A ring light or light pad placed in front of you will also increase alertness and stimulate photons<ul><li>Placing your desk near a window – and opening a window if possible – will stimulate eyes and send “wake up” signal during the first 7-8 hours of the day</li><li>Around 9-16 hours after waking, start dimming the environment: reduce blue light exposure, turn off overhead lights and turn on lamps or other lighting options in the workspace</li></ul>Screen brightness: people have different retinal sensitivity, but you never want it to be painful to look at your screen.

Workspace Light During The Workday

Around 17-24 hours after waking (shift workers or students): <ul><li>limit bright light to just enough that allows you to complete work to keep sleep and metabolism in the best shape possible;</li><li>if you want/need to be very alert, make the environment as bright as possible</li><li>It’s most ideal to stay awake during the day and sleep at night</li></ul>All-nighter tip: drink a lot of water and don’t let yourself go to the bathroom

Lighting Tips For Night Owls

<ul><li>Where you physically place a screen or book in your workspace plays an important role in alertness</li><li> When looking down toward the ground, neurons related to calm and sleepiness are activated</li><li>Ideally, work while standing or seated, not laying in bed or on the couch</li><li>Standing and sitting up straight while looking at a screen or book that is elevated will generate maximal levels of alertness</li><li>You will create maximum alertness, focus, and cognition when you bring your eyes to a narrow point in space – keep the visual focus narrow, around the side of the head or right outside the eyes.</li></ul>

Visual Focus

Cathedral effect: thinking becomes smaller and more constricted in tighter visual fields, and vice versa
High ceilings versus low ceilings: high ceilings elicit abstract thoughts and creativity whereas low ceilings promote detailed and concrete work
For Phase II (9-16 hours after waking creative work), work in a high ceiling room or outdoors; for detailed analytic work (ideally in Phase I 0-9 hours after waking), work in a lower ceiling environment or put in hoodie or hat to restrict the visual field.

The High And The Low

<ul>
<li>Listening to particular sounds and in particular, conditions can improve cognition</li>
<li>Sometimes we want more background noise, sometimes we want less: our auditory tolerance can change from one day to the next and even fluctuate within the same day</li>
<li>Background noise to avoid: the incessant humming of air conditioners or heaters can increase mental fatigue and decrease cognitive performance</li>
<li>Even if we’re not registering background noise, our auditory system is processing</li>
</ul>

Your Auditory Environment

<ul>
<li>Binaural beats place the brain into a state that is better for learning</li>
<li>Binaural beats: playing one sound in one ear and a different sound in the other ear</li>
<li>Low-frequency waves put the brain into a relaxed state versus high-frequency soundwaves which put the brain into more alert states</li>
<li>Binaural beats (around 40 Hz) have been shown to increase cognition, relaxation, creativity, pain reduction, anxiety reduction</li>
</ul>

Binaural Beats

Distractions and things that take away from tasks aren’t just bad in the moment, it takes time to get brain waves back into attention and focusTip: if someone enters your office or workspace, acknowledge their presence but don’t shift your body or reorient yourselfManaging phone distractions: turn off the phone, put the phone on airplane mode, put the phone in a drawer or away from eyesight

Interruptions & Distractions In Workspace

<ul>
<li>We weren’t designed to sit all day – but we also weren’t designed to stand all-day</li>
<li>Just sitting for 5-8+ hours a day is terrible for us and can impact sleep, neck pain, cardiovascular system, muscular pressure </li>
<li>A combination of sitting and standing throughout the day is best</li>
<li>People who decrease sitting time show improvements to shoulder and neck pain, vitality, improvement in cognitive conditioning, and embracing new tasks</li>
</ul>

Sitting Vs Standing

<ul>
<li>There don’t seem to be any differences in cognitive tasks between cycling versus walking workstations</li>
<li>Active workstations are better for some tasks, worse for others: there appear to be improvements in attention and cognition when using active workstations versus seated – however – verbal memory scores were worse during active workstations</li>
</ul>

Active Workstations

01:41:55 - In this episode, I discuss ways to set up your workspace to optimize productivity, focus and creativity. I discuss how to adjust light, physically a…

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In this episode, I discuss ways to set up your workspace to optimize productivity, focus and creativity. I discuss how to adjust light, physically arrange your work environment, and leverage body posture to enhance productivity. Additionally, I explore how to shift your work environment for particular types of tasks. Moreover, I review the role of body movement in the workspace. I also discuss sound-based tools that can either enhance or diminish cognitive functioning (the ability to focus on deep work). I describe a particular frequency of binaural beats that studies show can be used to enhance memory and recall. This episode covers quality peer-reviewed findings practical tools anyone can use, regardless of budget, in order to optimize their workspace to achieve heightened levels of productivity, increased alertness and focus, and creativity. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Arranging Environment for Focus (00:02:44) Sponsors: AG1, LMNT (00:07:55) How to Increase Focus (00:10:02) Lighting Your Work in Phase 1 (00:16:00) Lighting Your Work in Phase 2 (00:19:45) Lighting Your Work in Phase 3 (00:24:17) Where to Look While You Work (00:28:02) Arranging Your Environment (00:31:24) Body Posture (00:34:22) How Long to Do Deep Work (00:36:50) Set the Right Visual Window Size (00:42:15) 45 min / 5 min Rule (00:44:23) The Cathedral Effect: Analytic vs Creative Work (00:55:50) Leveraging Background Noise (01:02:20) Binaural Beats for Work (01:06:38) The Best Binaural Frequency for Work (01:11:17) How Binaural Beats Increase Focus (01:13:56) Minimizing Interruptions (01:20:01) Sit or Stand, or Both? (01:25:18) Movement in the Workspace (01:31:00) Summary & Shifting Work Environments (01:39:36) Zero-Cost Support, Sponsors, Instagram, Twitter, Supplements Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

Huberman Lab discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.

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Originally from Cleveland, USA and now based in London, <a href="https://medium.com/u/8318991231d5?source=post_page-----b1ae53bc04ff--------------------------------" target="_self">Joe Cohen</a> is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He founded the online ticket marketplace Seatwave in 2006 and, as CEO, grew it into a hugely successful marketplace for selling and buying tickets to sports, music and cultural events. The business was acquired by competitor <a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/" target="_self">Ticketmaster</a> in 2014.

Serial entrepreneur and investor Joe Cohen on his daily habits and what the future might look like post Coronavirus

7:00am: Get up6:30–7am: Coffee and look at news/twitter7am: Listen to the daily <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daf_Yomi">Daf Yomi </a>podcast7:30am: Wake children9am: Stretch and exercise: working on two challenges <a href="https://hundredpushups.com/index.html">here</a> and <a href="https://twohundredsitups.com/">here</a>10am: Take the dog out through the Heath11:00am: calls with company CEO’s and investors

What does a “typical” day look like for you?

All the companies I work with involve people physically coming together so they all have been changed immeasurably at this point. Working from home has made me consider other people’s home lives a lot more. I see them in their homes, with their families and all parts of our lives have merged together.

How has Coronavirus impacted work/life?

In terms of productivity tips, I have been using <a href="https://bear.app/">Bear</a> for a few years and I have found it to help me keep my notes organised and easy to refer back to. I find it impossible to find tweets that I want to read a link later so I now just like all the tweets to articles I want to read. Easy to find my likes. I

What productivity tips have you found useful whilst working from home?

Books are so personal, so I find recommendations troublesome unless you know someone’s taste. I read much more non-fiction now, but I try to mix in fiction as well. I am a bit obsessed with <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/best-le-carre-novel">John LeCarré</a> and have read most of his books several times.<ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Snakes-Novel-Harry-Crews/dp/0684842483">A Feast of Snakes</a> by Harry Crews</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Confederacy-Dunces-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0141182865/">A Confederacy of Dunces </a>by John Kennedy O’Toole a</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Relief-Unbearable-Urges-Nathan-Englander/dp/0375404929/">For the Relief of Unbearable Urges</a> by Nathan Englander</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-More-Famous-Barbara-Trapido/dp/0747599580/">Brother of the More Famous Jack</a> by Barbara Trapido</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dog-South-Charles-Portis/dp/074757264X">Dog of the South </a>by Charles Portis</li></ul>

What five books would you recommend during this time at home?

How is the unevenly distributed future accelerated? <ul><li>Food will go through this transition in the next decade.</li><li>The brand value of higher education is shifting from universities to individual instructors. Instead of applying to be accepted at a prestigious University, students will choose the best instructors.</li><li>The shrinking of government in the US and UK is problematic in many ways. It also creates more opportunities for businesses to step into the space government has vacated.</li><li>Onshore manufacturing of goods that will be considered a strategic asset </li></ul>

When this is all over, what will the opportunities look like?

Serial entrepreneur and investor Joe Cohen talks us through his daily habits, productivity tips, books he recommends and what he thinks the world will look like post the coronavirus pandemic.

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Just because everybody tells you to update your LinkedIn profile like it’s some trophy-winning contest, it doesn’t mean you should or you must.Learning to sit back sometimes and take no action to see what transpires is an interesting activity. Holding back from updating my LinkedIn profile led me to the realization that I’m not going to update it at all. Here are several reasons why.

Updating Your Job Profile On Linkedin

When you update your LinkedIn profile with your job and effectively tag your employer by doing so, you’re endorsing them.Here’s the thing: When you join a new company, you don’t know if their mission is pure or if they are the real deal. You could have done all the research and then still discover that the company is not what it seems from the outside.Updating your LinkedIn profile is giving a company the thumbs up and you may not be ready to do that just yet or feel it’s your duty.

Free promotion for your employer

Most employment laws around the world these days allows for a six month probation period. When you update your LinkedIn profile, you don’t know if you’ll still be at the company in six months. For all you know, you will part ways with your employer.Updating your LinkedIn profile means that if you fail, it’s going to come up in your career history on LinkedIn.

Failing in the first 6 months

Your LinkedIn profile tells someone a lot about you. For me, I don’t want to confuse people by trying to be too many things to too many people.I have chosen (for now) to make my LinkedIn profile about my writing career only and not have any connection to my day job. This allows people to discover the writer Tim and not the sales version of Tim that you see during business hours.

The focus of your career

When you tag a company as your employer, from that day forth, everything you say and do on LinkedIn can be curated by that company.If you say something that you really believe in and the company you work for see it, they can legitimately ask you to take it down — which is fair enough.

Your employer can dictate what you say

LinkedIn used to be a resume platform and that has changed a lot. The days of people clicking your profile to see your online resume are long gone. Your profile is still looked at, but just not as much as you think.People are spending more time on LinkedIn looking at what content you post, the comments you leave, and what posts you hit the like button on.If you’re updating your LinkedIn profile like your career depends on it, it doesn’t matter — not anymore, anyway.

People are not clicking your profile

In some areas of my life, I like to be private (you might be the same).The career situation this year has been a tough one for me and having my LinkedIn profile updated can cause people to treat my circumstances like a reality TV show waiting for the next episode.It’s nice to know that not everyone knows what I’m up to in my career.

The need for privacy

Now that my LinkedIn profile is solely focused on my writing career, it makes the clients I deal with curious.When they look me up on LinkedIn, they see a different person to one they interact with. There’s this whole other side that they get to discover and so far, this has brought me closer with clients.Using your LinkedIn profile to promote your hobby or side-hustle can help your clients see a different side of you that, in my case, has been really good for business.

Customers learn something about you

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Work is showing up at the appointed time, whether or not you feel like it. Work is creating value on demand, and work (for the artist) means putting all of it (or most of it) on the line. And free?
It makes sense to work for free when you think you’ll be able to turn that platform/situation into positive change, into increased trust, into something that moves you forward. The more generous you are with your ideas, and the more they spread, the more likely it is your perceived value goes up.

When "free work" makes sense

<ul>
<li>Do they pay other people that do the same type of work you do? What about their competitors?</li>
<li>Will I learn "enough" from this interaction that I can just call this a part of my education?</li>
<li>Is it public work with my name on it or am I just saving them cash to do something that should be paid for?</li>
<li>Will the company pay closer attention and treat my work seriously if I get paid?</li>
<li>Who are the people that can possibly notice me through this work? What are the chances that they will get to hire me professionally?</li>
<li>What is the risk if I do this work for free? If not?</li>
</ul>

Factors to consider when deciding whether to do "free work"

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<ul><li>An index</li><li>A daily log of tasks, events, and notes (each category is marked with its own symbol)</li><li>A monthly log, which combines a calendar and a to-do list</li><li>A future log, which serves as a space for longer-term priorities and far-off commitments.</li></ul>

The Bullet Journal: Key components

How to adapt the Bullet Journal template to meet your daily needs. You can use it for:<ul><li>Designing a simple and flexible workflow system</li><li>Making a budget and tracking your spending.</li><li>Tracking personal habits.</li></ul>

How to use the The Bullet Journal method

As a lawyer, my time is a scarce resource. Using Ryder Carroll’s Bullet Journal as a starting point, I’ve created a flexible organization system that works for me — and all I need is a pen and paper.

How I Adapted the Bullet Journal Method to Organize My Entire Life

We live on earth, but we are a tech-enabled society.Today, most of our actions advanced by technology come with a price. A price we continue to pay monthly, despite having only entered our credit card information once. That’s the beauty of the recurring payment model of subscriptions.I addressed my active subscriptions and wanted to share the 9 that will successfully bill me in the coming year.

The 9 Subscriptions You Should Bring With You Into 2020

Canva is a simplified graphic-design tool that uses a drag-and-drop format, provides access to photographs, vector images, graphics, and fonts, and includes professional layouts to design consistently stunning graphics.No matter how many times we lie about judging books by their covers, we do. Well, Canva is now making a lot of those book covers. Good branding is an invitation to explore the contents within and whether a book, a bottle or another product, good branding can either capture or dismiss our curiosity.

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Medium is an online publishing platform with a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers. Medium offers all users 3 reads per month before introducing a paywall, which once a member of allows for unlimited engagement.The news kinda sucks right now. Even progressive outlets have removed comment sections, forcing those seeking engagement into anonymous Reddit hell holes.

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Luminary is a podcast streaming platform and the first with a monthly access fee.Luminary is the first paid podcast platform and honestly, it was only a matter of time. Podcasts are the best free education out there, and the hosts deserve to be fairly compensated beyond pre-roll ad spend. Podcast hosts such as <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/6597623/guy-raz" target="_self">Guy Raz</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/mikiebarb?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_self">Michael Barbaro</a>, and <a href="https://www.richroll.com/" target="_self">Rich Roll</a>, and their guests, have become my professors. And they’ve kept their show’s free to listen to through other platforms.

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Spotify is a music streaming platform where the right music or podcast is always at your fingertips.Music delivers joy and <a href="https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/using-music-to-lift-depressions-veil/" target="_self">improves our moods</a>. That alone is enough justification for a $2.50 monthly fee to unlimited music and podcasts. To add more though, consider Spotify as the soundtrack to your commute, your workday, your workout, your life. Especially attractive is Spotify if you choose not to pursue a Luminary subscription with the volume of podcasts included.

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Down Dog Yoga is an anytime, anywhere, unique yoga practice. With over 30,000 different configurations, and multiple levels, voices, and settings you are able to individualize your practice, every time.I love <a href="https://medium.com/@rickieticklez/i-wish-you-community-f10e3c5a120d" target="_self">community</a>, but don’t love rushing to an afternoon class, or meeting an early morning schedule, especially the more autonomous I’ve become over my schedule. With Down Dog, if I’m inspired to fall into a practice, or only want to dedicate 15 minutes, I’m empowered to do so.

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Did you know that people spend almost 3x more time on Insight Timer than many other apps who have 10 times more downloads and a bazillion times more revenue? Insight Timer is the world's largest free library of guided meditations on earth and the world’s most loved meditation Timer.You’ve read the articles about <a href="https://medium.com/swlh/i-did-it-on-an-airplane-b410c6f7004f" target="_self">meditation</a>, have tried and failed to keep a practice, or even lied about having a practice on a first date. Whatever your truth is, I don’t care. What I care about is Insight Timer.

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The first social fitness network, Strava is the number one app for runners and cyclists. It has an international user community of over 40 million and a team that spends each day searching for new ways to inspire athletes and make the sports they love even more fun.

Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform, most commonly used for email marketing.Email lists are measured by the value of each subscriber. That individual subscriber value is a constantly debated metric and often shared only when it’s of an impressive value. Subscriber worth aside, the important message here is to keep an email list.

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FindTap is a first of its kind drinking network for smarter cities and a cleaner planet. With their app, users find the closest place to refill a water bottle within seconds.This may not be a subscription, but it is something to use monthly. No, daily.Never underestimate the power of two things:<ol><li><a href="https://dripdrop.com/blogs/news/5-surprising-benefits-of-proper-hydration" target="_self">Hydration</a>.</li><li>That the sum of small acts can change the world.</li></ol>

you may have noticed is that this list does not include Netflix, Hulu, YouTube TV or any other streaming service. This was intentional. As entertaining as the content within these platforms is, the majority of shows and series do not support a growth mindset. If anything, they encourage unhealthy and stationary behaviors.Consider replacing the hours spent horizontal delaying sleep fixated on streaming screens with podcasts, yoga, or Medium. Or, if you enjoy reading, open a local library card and access their digital downloads from anywhere. Another free service.

Hey, Where Is Netflix?

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