yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

How To Get Excited About Life Again #Shorts


less than 1m read
·Nov 4, 2024

Processing might take a few minutes. Refresh later.

You don't need a vacation to feel excited or refreshed about your life in the world. New things are waiting around the corner if you just open your eyes and look for them. Constantly challenge yourself to learn new skills, like maybe learning a new cuisine or building a bench for your backyard.

Maybe you just want to get better at meeting people. Go to a neighborhood event or sit alone at a bar and talk to a stranger. Whether big or small, let something exciting take over your brain and let you feel like a kid again.

Another hack is to try to remember your day as vividly as possible. Routine can feel good, but it also doesn't allow for new memories to get imprinted on our brains. Spending time reflecting on your day makes you more likely to ingrain the memories, even the bad ones.

Naturally, our memory is short-lived. It's easy to go to bed every night and not think about what happened to us during the day. But what if you stopped and spent a few minutes to relive it? Would mundane things become important or exciting? Would you remember someone or something you saw on the street that was new or strange? Suddenly, your day might feel a bit slower.

More Articles

View All
Climate Change Efforts Must Be Practical and the Time is NOW
How do we develop climate-oriented investments that are both going to move the needle in a significant way and also generate a significant enough return for investors? Yes, well think about it. It’s your pension fund, and now because it’s your pension fu…
Khan Academy Ed Talks featuring Brooke Mabry - Wednesday, December 16
Hi everyone, Sal Khan here from Khan Academy. Welcome to our Ed Talks Live, this new flavor of homeroom that we’re doing. We have a very exciting conversation with Brooke Mabry about learning loss, summer slide, and actually our partnership with NWEA as w…
Timeline of The Most Important Philosophical Ideas, I guess
We’re all pretty used to rain. We’re either prepared for it with an umbrella or raincoat, or just get wet. Rarely does it genuinely upset us. But what about when it rains for days and the streets flood so you can’t go outside? Or when you realize you can’…
15 Ways to Avoid Sounding Stupid
If you had to choose between saying a two-syllable word or a four-syllable word to sound smart, which one would you choose? It might sound counterintuitive, but choosing the four-syllable word will make you sound kinda dumb compared to choosing the two-sy…
Definite integral involving natural log | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy
Let’s now take the definite integral from 2 to 4 of (6 + x^2) over (x^3) dx. At first, this might seem pretty daunting. I have this rational expression, but if we just rewrite this, it might jump out at you how this could be a little bit simpler. So, thi…
Taxing Unrealized Values Can Destroy Billionaires
Most people don’t realize that this can actually make Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos go broke and send their stocks crashing. The reason is because 48 trillion dollars of stock value equals zero dollars in real money, and the IRS only takes real money. Bi…