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
Fighting Wildlife Crime: "Poaching Is Stealing From All of Us." | National Geographic
We do get captivated by media, by the attention drawn to other countries, to the big animals that are being slaughtered by poachers. We do forget that we have the same problems going on in our backyards. Whenever, uh, we see a deer laying in a field that…
Politics and indigenous relations in the New England colonies | AP US History | Khan Academy
[Instructor] In the last video, we began discussing some of the similarities and differences between the English colonists who landed at New England versus those who landed in Virginia. Thanks to different reasons for migrating to the New World and a much…
Saving Manatees: What It Takes - Meet the Expert | National Geographic
So good to see you all again! I’m so excited for this time every week. Um, we get the opportunity to chat to a wonderful scientist, or expert, or conservationist live somewhere in the world, and we get to chat about some of their awesome research projects…
What Shutting Down Your Startup Feels Like - Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy with Kat Manalac
Cat, you haven’t been on the podcast in a while. Why don’t you introduce yourself before we talk about Omni for an hour? Well, so I’m Captain Alec. I’m one of the partners at YC. I work a lot on outreach to applicants, so everything we do with an externa…
The Bitcoin Credit Card Is A Disaster...
What’s up, you Graham? It’s Guys here, and it’s about time we talk about something that’s been getting brought up a lot lately. Well, companies are all out there desperately scrambling over each other to try to find a way to capitalize on Bitcoin almost h…
The Child Mind Institute on supporting children during Covid-19 | Homeroom with Sal
Hi everyone, welcome to the daily homeroom! Uh, for those of you all who aren’t familiar with what this is or might just be showing up off of Facebook or YouTube, uh, this is Khan Academy’s way of making sure that we all stay connected during school clos…