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Can you find an adventure today? 🗺️

2023-12-31 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:39 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Evidence-based framing, Feel-Good Productivity thesis

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali says an adventurous life unlocks positive emotions, citing a 2020 New York University and University of Miami study in which people who visited a wider, more random range of places felt happier, more excited and more relaxed.

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00:00:00 — An adventurous life and the 2020 GPS study of happiness

  • ★★★ Ali says an adventurous life holds the key to unlocking positive emotions. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali cites a 2020 experiment by New York University and the University of Miami that tracked over 130 participants by phone GPS for several months and texted them to ask how happy, excited or relaxed they felt. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ In the New York University and University of Miami GPS study, Ali says, participants who went to a wider and more random range of places, such as taking a new route to work or trying a different coffee shop, felt happier, more excited and more relaxed. — 00:00:00

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New York University · University of Miami

Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

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