
5 Habits That Will Make 2025 Your Best Year Yet | Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Rangan Chatterjee
Dec 27, 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Manage caffeine intake by understanding its six-hour half-life
The half-life of caffeine is roughly six hours, meaning a coffee at noon leaves a quarter of its caffeine in your system at midnight.
Recognize and address created problems in comfortable lives
A psychological phenomenon called 'prevalence induced concept change' suggests that in comfortable lives, we start to create problems and perceive non-threatening things as threatening.
Recognize alcohol as a sedative that disrupts sleep quality
Alcohol is a sedative, not a sleep aid; it fragments sleep and blocks REM sleep, which is crucial for emotional processing.
Filter expert advice through personal experience for better decisions
You should listen to expert advice but filter it through your own experience, as you ultimately know what's best for you better than any external expert.
Introduce discomfort to combat diseases of comfort
Many modern physical and mental health conditions are 'diseases of comfort,' and you must intentionally introduce discomfort into your life to thrive.
Automate healthy behaviors with simple rules like 'always take the stairs'
Create a simple, powerful rule like 'always take the stairs' to automate uncomfortable but healthy behaviors and build psychological resilience.
Address loneliness crisis among young people
Counter-intuitively, young people are now struggling with greater levels of loneliness than older people, with rates in the US being double that of those over 65.
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