There are regions in the world where people enjoy exceptionally long lives, living well into their 100s.These areas of the world are where the author calls the Blue Zones.

Blue Zones

One of those Blue Zones is Sardinia, a small island off the coast of Italy.A 2011 study showed that in Sardinia, 1 in 600 humans live to be 100 or older. This is in contrast to the US, where 1 in 4000 people are 100 or older.

Sardinia, Italy

The most important determinant of longevity is our lifestyle, not our genes.According to a famous Danish study, which looked at over 2,500 twins, genes only account for 25% of all the factors that determine how long we live.

Longevity Is Not Genetics

No one carries longevity in their DNA.What matters is our behavior and how we choose to live our lives.If you can optimize your lifestyle (to be in line with how people in the Blue Zones live), you may gain back an extra decade of the good life.

Technology has gotten to the point where we can do basically anything just by the touch of a button.We can shop, work, and even socialize from the comfort of our homes. But this comfort we enjoy comes at a great price: our health.WHO: 85% of the world population does not engage in enough physical activity, making a sedentary lifestyle the 4th leading risk factor for global mortality.

Sedentary Lifestyle

Living an active lifestyle is essential to longevity.Studies have shown that physical activity reduces major risk factors of death (hypertension, diabetes, stroke, heart attack, and cancer).When you are physically active, your body and mind will be in great condition and the process of aging will be slowed down.

We can make our lifestyle active by making life a little tougher.<ul><li>Start walking or riding a bicycle to the store instead of driving.</li><li>Take the stairs instead of using the elevators, etc.</li></ul>If workout is already part of your life, make sure your routine includes a combination of aerobic, balancing, and muscle-strengthening activities.

No Gym Required

Follow the people of Okinawa (Japan), which happens to be the Blue Zone, to stop eating when you’re 80% full.They don’t keep eating till they clear the plate, or till they are too full to take another bite. Be mindful.

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Caloric restriction is an important factor in longevity.Studies have shown that losing just 10% of one’s body weight helps to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, which reduces the risk of heart disease.

<ol><li>Trick yourself into eating less by making your food look bigger.</li><li>Use smaller vessels to serve your meals.</li><li>Do not rush your meals; try as much as possible to eat slower.</li><li>Avoid distractions while eating and focus on food. If you’re going to eat, just eat and leave everything else until you’re done.</li></ol>

Cut Back Calories Easily

Blue zones’ people diets are predominantly plant-based.They never develop the habit of eating processed foods, soda pop, or salty snacks.They avoided meat and other animal products except on rare occasions.

Plant-Based Diet

Worry that a plant-based diet may not provide enough protein? Not.An average plant-based diet with legumes and fortified grains can meet our daily need for protein.When we consume too much protein, the body takes the amount required to maintain it and convert the rest to calories or fat.

While most of us think that longevity is all about eating right and staying fit, that is actually not the case.Living long also has a lot to do with the state of your mind.

Longevity is beyond your meals or staying fit.Individuals who expressed a clear goal in a life lived longer and were sharper than those who did not.People who know their goals, who have something to get up for in the morning — live longer, better lives.

Set Clear Goal

In most of the Blue Zones, their children check up on their parents and the younger generation welcomes the older generation to live with them.Research has shown that elders who live with their children, are:<ul><li>Eating healthier diets.</li><li>Having lower chances of getting sick and levels of stress.</li><li>Having a much lower incidence of serious accidents.</li></ul>

Family First

A sense of purpose may come from something as simple as seeing grandchildren grow up well or learning something new, such as musical instrument or a new language.When it comes to family, cherish it above anything else. Invest time and energy in your children, your spouse, and your parents.

Sense Of Purpose

During weekend create a “sanctuary in time” to focus on God, families, and nature.Spend time together with the closest ones and do things that bring them closer and make them feel closer to God.Slowing down increase the ability of immune system to fight off minor illnesses, simply because you’re less stress.

Slowing Down

Meditation increases concentration and allows us to see the world as it really is, instead of how we think it is.To start meditation, create a space in your home that is quiet, not too hot and not too cold, not too dark and not too light. Get a meditation cushion to put in the space.

Meditation

Lessons for living longer from the people who’ve lived the longest.

In this expanded paperback edition of his New York Times bestseller, longevity expert Dan Buettner draws on his research from extraordinarily long-lived communities--Blue Zones--around the globe to highlight the lifestyle, diet, outlook, and stress-coping practices that will add years to your life and life to your years. A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. If you adopt the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are you may live up to a decade longer. So what's the formula for success? National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner has lead teams of researchers across the globe to uncover the secrets of Blue Zones--geographic regions where high percentages of centenarians are enjoying remarkably long, full lives. The recipe for longevity, Buettner has found, is deeply intertwined with community, lifestyle, and spirituality. You won't find longevity in a bottle of diet pills or with hormone therapy. You'll find it by embracing a few simple but powerful habits, and by creating the right community around yourself. In The Blue Zone, Buettner has blended his lifestyle formula with the latest longevity research to inspire lasting behavioral change and add years to your life.

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Personal Development

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Health

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Habits

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Longevity

Dan Buettner

The Blue Zones

A habit is formed when you do things in a particular way, over and over again, for a period of time.We need habits because they make life easier.Habits require little-to-no effort to execute once they have been cemented in our brains.

Habit

Your habits can either help you succeed or contribute to your failure.

Habits are either empowering or disempowering.For example: Running late to meetings is a habit but obviously, not an empowering one since it can get you fired. But always going to meetings early will serve you a great deal.

Good & Bad Habit

Most people start working under someone else (pursuing a career), while very few venture into a vocation.Whatever path you're on, growth is the only thing sure to guarantee speedy progress.When intentional about growth, you will gather knowledge and experience quickly, propelling you to heights.

Growth Mindset

Successful people, whether working for somebody else or themselves, do whatever they do to the best of their ability – as if the boss watches them every minute of every day.

Vision brings meaning to your actions.<ul><li>Why do you wake up every day?</li><li>What is it that motivates you to get up in the morning?</li></ul>Unfortunately, for far too many people, their motivation is their bills. No higher purpose, no vision, nothing. And that's why it's easy to get distracted in the day.

Vision

Success is all about meeting set targets, and that means you need a target you're pursuing to succeed.It's like getting into your car with no destination in mind. You'd waste gas without getting anywhere or accomplishing anything.

Target

Pause for a moment to think about your life and what you'd like to accomplish.For example: Create a vision that appeals to you if you want to discover romantic relationships.<ul><li>Do you want to go on vacations more often?</li><li>Do you want to have kids?</li><li>What kind of family would you like to raise?</li></ul>

Purpose

Once you know your vision, target, and purpose — you'll seize to live just for living sake, but every moment of the day, you'd see the reason for doing what you do.You'd become less distracted, more focused and less likely to make mistakes your future self would regret.

No matter how smart a person is, they are bound to make mistakes.Circumstances can tempt them to give up. All these are the inevitables of life.What keeps a person going in the face of challenge is not smartness nor mental toughness, but a strong WHY.

Understand The WHY

Find your WHY 7 times. The reason seven such a magical number is still a mystery, but what's certain is that the first WHY you give for any desire comes out of your head.As you approach and get to number seven, the WHY you begin to give will come right from your heart, and that's your true WHY.

Ask Your Why 7 Times

There's a hero in you as much as a villain in there, but the one you concentrate most on is the one that wins.Two keys you can use to keep the villain at bay:<ul><li>Don't hesitate to take a news break if you realise that you've consumed too much negative stuff.</li><li>Focus on your strengths instead of working on your weaknesses. Working on weaknesses may result in frustration. The truth is, you'd never be good at everything.</li></ul>

There are things in life that you'd suck at, and that's not a bad thing.

We talk to ourselves more than we communicate with anyone, including our spouses.Hence we must take self-talk seriously.Your self-talk is a total of the story you've been telling yourself over time and have come to believe.So, create a positive story for yourself!

Positive Self Talk

The book is designed with one purpose in mind: to take you from where you are in life to where you want to be in life by incorporating easy-to-implement "Success Habits" into your daily routine.

Millionaire Success Habits is a book designed with one purpose in mind: to take you from where you are in life to where you want to be in life by incorporating easy-to-implement "Success Habits" into your daily routine. Legendary business coach Dean Graziosi has broken down the walls of complexity around success and created simple success recipes that you can quickly put to use in your life to reach the level of wealth and abundance you desire. This book is not about adding more time to your day. It is about replacing those things that are not serving your future with success habits designed specifically to assist you on your journey to a better you. In these pages, you'll: - Drill down deep to identify your "why"--the true purpose that drives you and the real reason you want to prosper - Expose and overcome the "villain within" that's holding you back - Unlock the single biggest secret to being productive (it's probably not what you think) - Believe in your own massive potential--

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Problem Solving

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Books

Dean Graviosi

Millionaire Success Habits

You are the only person to blame for whatever is happening to you.You are the pilot of your life and the only one who can decide whether to live a good life, or not.

You Decide

Everything you do in life falls under four categories. You must perfectly understand them to live a fulfilling life.The four categories are CORE 4.They shape the way you live, how you see the world, and how you approach the world in general.

CORE 4

CORE 4 represents something unique about your life.<ol><li>Power (body).</li><li>Passion (relationship).</li><li>Purpose (mind).</li><li>Production (business).</li></ol>

CORE 4 Principles

<ul><li>Your body represents your physical presence.</li><li>The relationship represents how you interact with everyone around you: family, friends, and environment.</li><li>The mind is about how you must positively view things, embrace life's values, and fill yourself with helpful knowledge.</li><li>Your business involves your income and financial security.</li></ul>

CORE 4 Representations

Having a fit body is an absolute necessity.You have no excuse for not being fit.Your body is what hugs your kids, takes you to work, gets you intimate with your partner, and gives you the luxury to enjoy everything you’ve worked for.Get fit, in shape, and have a clear mind by:<ul><li>Exercising & hiring a personal trainer.</li><li>Always. Having. A. Plan.</li><li>Eating only nutritious food.</li><li>Finding/committing to an accountability partner.</li></ul>

1. Power (Body)

There’s a limit to your control over other people, but there’s no limit to how much you can control yourself.

Nothing kills growth more than being in a bad relationship. It extends to harbouring resentments, anger, sadness, etc.You can learn to do these:<ol><li>Replace negative words with positive reactions.</li><li>When someone offends you, walk away. Make your feelings known without a confrontation.</li><li>Be more appreciative.</li></ol>

2. Passion (Relationship)

Your mind is your power to make decisions.You cannot control the thoughts that come to your mind, but you can control your reactions to them.The best way to train your mind well is to start every day with positivity.Schedule a morning routine by paying attention on:<ul><li>what you’ll do when you wake up,</li><li>what you’ll read today,</li><li>what content you’ll consume, and</li><li>who are the people you’ll talk to first.</li></ul>

3. Purpose (Mind)

Most people unintentionally substitute their family for a job, thereby losing a bigger part of themselves.There are two ways out of such a situation:<ol><li>You give up and lose everything.</li><li>You hire a CORE 4 coach and work things out nicely.</li></ol>Hiring a coach doesn’t make you a weakling or a stupid person.All the best athletes and great people in the world have at least, a coach. Some have multiple coaches, and if they can, you can too.

4. Production (Business)

Now that you understand CORE 4; create your happiness!<ol><li>Quit your job if it doesn’t make you happy.</li><li>Stay away from people that bring lousy energy to you.</li><li>Approach every day with positivity.</li><li>Look forward to every challenge with a determination to win.</li><li>Appreciate more and complain less.</li></ol>

Create Your Happiness

Learn the four principles of taking control of our life: the work-life balance, reasons to be fit, and how to shape our life.

Is your daily life chaotic and out of control? Do you struggle with work/life balance? Does it feel like there are never enough hours in the day to accomplish all your goals? Does it feel like no matter how hard you try it's never good enough? Are you looking for a simple yet executable roadmap to create the life you've always desired? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you need...HOW TO MAKE SH*T HAPPEN."Core 4 has brought order to chaos. Every time I veer off from it, the shit storms appear" - Ed Eisenbeck "CORE 4 has opened up my mind more than anything I have done in my life. It has shown me that I control my time, my relationships, my body, business, and altogether my life. I'm no longer just along for the ride. In any aspect of life." - Bryan Hooley

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Mental Health

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Sean Whalen

How to Make Sh*t Happen

Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, was once asked in an interview, "How do you become more productive?"The interviewer wondered what a billionaire’s answer would be.He broke the silence: "Work out."Working out gave him at least four additional hours of productive time daily.

Billionaire's Life Secret

Before you jump into the workout routine, understand The Minimum Effective Dose (MED). MED delivers the most dramatic results in the least amount of time.Anything beyond the MED is wasteful. For example:<ol><li>To boil water, the MED is 100°C. Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled," only consuming more resources.</li><li>For a muscle group, activating your growth muscle might require just 80 seconds of tension using 50 pounds once every seven days.</li></ol>More is not better.

If you want a body transformation, there are two fundamental MEDs to keep in mind:<ol><li>To remove stored fat: Do the least necessary to trigger a fat-loss cascade of specific hormones.</li><li>To add muscle: Do the least necessary to trigger local (specific muscles) and systemic (hormonal) growth mechanisms.</li></ol>What small steps are to achieve these two objectives?Scroll down to deep dive further into this!

Body Redesign

Different sources of calories = different results.Scenario #1: 2 identical twins eat the same meals for 30 days. The only difference: one of them just finished a course of antibiotics and now lacks sufficient good bacteria for full digestion.Will the body composition outcomes be the same? Not.Scenario #2: 3 females of the same race, age, and body composition consume 2,000 calories daily for 30 days. Subject A consumes nothing but table sugar, Subject B consumes nothing but lean chicken breast and Subject C consumes nothing but mayonnaise.Will the body composition outcomes be the same? Not.

Calorie

It’s not what you put in your mouth that matters, it’s what makes it to your bloodstream. If it passes through, it doesn’t count.

Now that you understand the basic theories let's start to follow the diet rules.<ol><li>Rule #1: Avoid white carbohydrates.</li><li>Rule #2: Eat the same few meals repeatedly.</li><li>Rule #3: Don’t drink calories.</li><li>Rule #4: Don’t eat fruits.</li><li>Rule #5: Take one day off per week.</li></ol>Keep scrolling down to deep dive further into this!

Five Diet Rules

These foods are prohibited:All bread, rice (including brown), cereal, potatoes, pasta, and fried food with breading.You'll be safe if you avoid eating the above foods and anything else white.Exception: You are good to consume those above foods within 30 minutes of finishing resistance training.

Rule #1: Avoid White Carbohydrates

The most successful dieters eat the same few meals over and over again. A thousand products are in grocery stores, but only a handful won’t make you fat.Mix and match from the following list:<ol><li>Proteins: Egg whites, chicken breast or thigh, beef.</li><li>Legumes: Lentils, black beans, pinto beans, red beans, asparagus, peas, broccoli, green beans.</li></ol>Eat as much as you like of the above food items, but keep it simple. Pick three or four meals and repeat them.

Rule #2: Eat The Same Meals

<ul><li>Drink: Massive quantities of water and as much unsweetened tea, black coffee, or other no/low-calorie beverages as you like.</li><li>Do not Drink: Any milk, regular soft drinks, or fruit juice. Limit diet soft drinks to no more than 16 ounces per day if you can, as aspartame can stimulate weight gain.</li></ul>

Rule #3: Don’t Drink Calories

Humans don’t need fruit six days a week, and they certainly don’t need it year-round.Can fruit juice screw up fat loss? Yes, very much.Fruit juice increases albumin that binds to testosterone.The only exceptions to the no-fruit rule are tomatoes and avocados (but no more than one cup or meal per day).

Rule #4: Don’t Eat Fruits

The author recommends Saturdays as your Dieters Gone Wild (DGW) days.You are allowed to eat whatever you want on Saturdays.There are no limits or boundaries during this day.Should you do it? Yes, of course.

Rule #5: Take One Day Off Per Week

Damage control means eating a lot but still minimizing fat gain.Apply these three principles:<ol><li>Principle #1: Minimize the release of insulin. How? Ensure that your first meal of the day is high in protein and insoluble fibre. The protein will decrease your appetite for the remainder of the binge and prevent total self-destruction.</li><li>Principle #2: Increase the speed of gastric emptying. Gastric emptying = Food exits the stomach. How? Consume caffeine and yerba mate tea.</li><li>Principle #3: During the binge, engage in muscular contractions (air squats, wall presses, and chest pull with an elastic band).</li></ol>

Damage Control

Two bacteria have been found to influence fat absorption regardless of diet: Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes.<ul><li>Lean people have more Bacteroidetes but fewer Firmicutes.</li><li>Obese people have more Firmicutes but fewer Bacteroidetes.</li></ul>How to increase them?<ol><li>Fermented foods. It contains healthy bacteria.</li><li>Prebiotics and probiotics. It could benefit from allergies, aging, obesity, and diseases from AIDS to type 2 diabetes.</li></ol>

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Sports

How To Build Muscle

The 4-Hour Body is a great resource to focus on diet, exercise, sleep, and more.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The game-changing author of Tribe of Mentors teaches you how to reach your peak physical potential with minimum effort. “A practical crash course in how to reinvent yourself.”—Kevin Kelly, Wired Is it possible to reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing? Indeed, and much more.  The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body using data science. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss fixated on one life-changing question:  For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results? Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women. It’s the wisdom Tim used to gain 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time. From the gym to the bedroom, it’s all here, and it all works.  You will learn (in less than 30 minutes each): • How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails • How to prevent fat gain while bingeing over the weekend or the holidays • How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested  • How to produce 15-minute female orgasms  • How to triple testosterone and double sperm count • How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks  • How to reverse “permanent” injuries   • How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit          And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects. You don't need better genetics or more exercise. You need immediate results that compel you to continue. That’s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.

Tim Ferriss is author of three #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef. He is also a start-up advisor specializing in positioning, PR, and marketing (Uber, Evernote, etc.). When not damaging his body with abusive sports, he enjoys chocolate, bear claws, and Japanese animation.

Timothy Ferriss

The 4-Hour Body

How many times have you bought things you didn’t need or couldn’t afford?We often make these wrong financial decisions because we do not have a budget.

Budget

Rules that will help you make a success of budgeting:<ul><li>Don't create any debt you cannot repay within a month.</li><li>Don't make buying expensive things a habit.</li><li>Check your account balance at least twice every week.</li><li>Don't assume savings will happen automatically.</li></ul>

Success Budgeting

Your cash flow is healthy if:<ul><li>50% of your income pays your fixed costs like rent, telephone, and utility bills.</li><li>30% of your income pays for variable and lifestyle costs like groceries and travel.</li><li>20% of your income pays for short and long-term investments.</li></ul>

Healthy Cashflow

You also need a pyramid of bank accounts in place.<ol><li>Top of Pyramid: Checking account. This is where you keep your day-to-day expenses.</li><li>2nd Top of Pyramid: Savings account. It houses your emergency fund.</li><li>Middle of Pyramid: Semi-liquid savings account, which would help save up to buy a house in a few years.</li><li>Bottom of Pyramid: Account for longer-term investment.</li></ol>

Pyramid of Bank Accounts

<ul><li>Save up an emergency fund equal to at least three months of your living expenses.</li><li>Create a debt repayment schedule that pays down your debt at a minimum cost of interest and maximum benefit in profit to you. Compare the interest on your debt with the return on investment you are getting per dollar for the month.</li><li>Open up a retirement account.</li><li>Consider investing in the likes of mutual and index funds because they are low-risk.</li><li>Consider investing in the individual stocks of companies you feel a strong affinity for (only if you feel confident of your investing savviness).</li></ul>

Start Your Journey

Nothing scary or complicated about investing.None of your money should sit idle in a bank account except your emergency fund.Your money should actively work toward reaching a goal on its own to your benefit.

Investing

Cooking your own meals is a great way to save money. Financial security means you must embrace the Italian grandmother's mindset — cooking for yourself and your family members is imperative, and eating out or ordering food is a treat.The next time you’re tempted to go to the nearest restaurant, remind yourself there is food at home, and you can save for the future.

Lifestyle

With your partner, you need to have goals and dreams involving investments, property ownership, and retirement, not just falling in love and hoping all turns out well.You should willingly postpone your fairy-tale ending to build some stability for yourself.

Money in Your Relationship

<ul><li>Find a non-stressful time to have a money talk.</li><li>Begin the conversation by appreciating each other.</li><li>Both you and your partner should then, in turn, share how money was regarded and handled in each family.</li><li>Both of you should, in turn, share money hopes and dreams, as well as fears and concerns.</li><li>Both of you can mention the facts ― the subject of the (potential) dispute.</li><li>Both of you should agree not to blame the other concerning the money issues that have now been resolved.</li></ul>

Discuss with Your Life Partners

Money is nice, but there has to be a point to it. Otherwise, you’ll never have enough.

Having a written financial plan gives us a measurable goal to work toward. We can reduce doubt or uncertainty about our decisions and adjust to help overcome obstacles that could derail us.

*A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018* *One of Real Simple's Most Inspiring Books for Graduates* *Indie Personal Finance Bestseller* How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start. The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don’t care about personal finance. Whether you’re in need of an overspending detox, buried under student debt, or just trying to figure out how to live on an entry-level salary, The Financial Diet gives you tools to make a budget, understand investments, and deal with your credit. Chelsea Fagan has tapped a range of experts to help you make the best choices for you, but she also knows that being smarter with money isn’t just about what you put in the bank. It’s about everything—from the clothes you put in your closet, to your financial relationship habits, to the food you put in your kitchen (instead of ordering in again). So The Financial Diet gives you the tools to negotiate a raise and the perfect cocktail recipe to celebrate your new salary. The Financial Diet will teach you: • how to get good with money in a year. • the ingredients everyone needs to have a budget-friendly kitchen. • how to talk about awkward money stuff with your friends. • the best way to make (and stick to!) a budget. • how to take care of your house like a grown-up. • what the hell it means to invest (and how you can do it).

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Money & Investments

Chelsea Fagan

Lauren Ver Hage

The Financial Diet

The brain controls us and defines our behavior.It's responsible not only for thinking, learning, and mental abilities; the brain reacts to every tiny stimulus inside the body and in the outer world.

Brain

Women and men can feel changes in their brains right after the pregnancy period starts.In male bodies: The testosterone level decreases, making them more caring.In female bodies: Prolactin provokes the desire for nesting.For mothers: These changes are permanent. The bond between a child and its mother is a biological necessity for survival, prompted by oxytocin (the love hormone).

Brains During Pregnancy

The mother's habits and the environment are crucial for the baby's development.The bad habits cause damage to the baby's brain, as they may lead to depression or schizophrenia.Dieting and fasting are as harmful to a baby as drinking alcohol and smoking, as they may lead to brain disorders.

Habits & Environment

Young Picasso could barely read and write.Einstein spoke slower than others.Daniel Tammet knows by heart PI to 22 514 decimal places.These brain disorders are genetic, and numerous reasons can cause them.

Brain Disorders

Even though many feminists claim that gender is a social construct, numerous studies show that a baby determines its gender, sexual orientation, and the extent of aggression before birth.It's more likely to be caused genetically rather than by the influence of the outer world.

Gender & Sexual Orientation

What does it mean to be in a coma?A coma results from brain damage and makes a patient unresponsive to external stimulations.Doctors often say, "A coma patient is like a vegetable." They are still alive, but their brain is dead.

Coma

In contrast to coma, locked-in syndrome means that the patient's brain is still working and conscious of itself but completely paralyzed.In most cases, they can only move with their eyes, and that's the method of communication for them.

Locked-in Syndrome

95% of Americans believe in God.This belief is also fully processed in our brains.Our family and environment left information in the brain during the early years, and we adjusted to it the same way as a mother tongue.Richard Dawkins (a famous evolutionary biologist) claims that kids are affected by their religious parents because they can't think critically.

Religion

If life is a gradual development process, then Alzheimer's is a disease that causes a reverse: a person slowly loses the ability to live normally and care for themselves.Moreover, step by step, they lose their personality.The first symptoms include loss of memory or inappropriate behavior.How to prevent Alzheimer's?You can minimize your chances by maximizing brain activity, such as:<ul><li>Speaking foreign languages.</li><li>Obtaining an education.</li><li>Working a challenging job.</li><li>Stimulating your thinking and physical activities.</li></ul>

Alzheimer

People often believe that our feelings, desires, and love are in our hearts.However, they are wrong!Your personality, with its fears, dreams, ambitions, and passions, is based on your brain, while the heart only pumps blood to keep your body functioning.

Love is In Our Brain, not the Heart

The brain is the very essence of our personality and abilities. Unraveling the brain will help us understand the basis of human behavior and actions.

A vivid account of what makes us human.   Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine our potential, our limitations, and our desires, with each chapter serving as an eye-opening window on a different stage of brain development: the gender differences that develop in the embryonic brain, what goes on in the heads of adolescents, how parenthood permanently changes the brain.   Moving beyond pure biological understanding, Swaab presents a controversial and multilayered ethical argument surrounding the brain. Far from possessing true free will, Swaab argues, we have very little control over our everyday decisions, or who we will become, because our brains predetermine everything about us, long before we are born, from our moral character to our religious leanings to whom we fall in love with. And he challenges many of our prevailing assumptions about what makes us human, decoding the intricate “moral networks” that allow us to experience emotion, revealing maternal instinct to be the result of hormonal changes in the pregnant brain, and exploring the way that religious “imprinting” shapes the brain during childhood. Rife with memorable case studies, We Are Our Brains is already a bestselling international phenomenon. It aims to demystify the chemical and genetic workings of our most mysterious organ, in the process helping us to see who we are through an entirely new lens.   Did you know?   • The father’s brain is affected in pregnancy as well as the mother’s. • The withdrawal symptoms we experience at the end of a love affair mirror chemical addiction. • Growing up bilingual reduces the likelihood of Alzheimer’s. • Parental religion is imprinted on our brains during early development, much as our native language is. Praise for We Are Our Brains   “Swaab’s ‘neurobiography’ is witty, opinionated, passionate, and, above all, cerebral.”—Booklist (starred review)   “A fascinating survey . . . Swaab employs both personal and scientific observation in near-equal measure.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “A cogent, provocative account of how twenty-first-century ‘neuroculture’ has the potential to effect profound medical and social change.”—Kirkus Reviews

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

scienceandnature

Science & Nature

D. F. Swaab

We Are Our Brains

In Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, death from overwork is called Karoshi, Guolaosi, and Gwarosa.The phrase has no word in English, but people around us are victims.Sleep deprivation is a significant issue in our world today.

Death from Overwork

Sleep is a critical element of our well-being. Though it's the simplest thing to do, many are suffering from getting a good amount of sleep.

Co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives, our personal lives--and even our sex lives in this New York Times bestseller. We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, with profound consequences to our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What we need is nothing short of a sleep revolution: only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives. In The Sleep Revolution, Arianna explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She takes on the sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power. The result is a sweeping, scientifically rigorous, and deeply personal exploration of sleep from all angles, from the history of sleep, to the role of dreams in our lives, to the consequences of sleep deprivation, and the new golden age of sleep science that reveals the vital role sleep plays in our every waking moment and every aspect of our health--from weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease to cancer and Alzheimer’s.   In today's fast-paced, always-connected, perpetually-harried and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important--and elusive--than ever. The Sleep Revolution both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.

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