"What makes people flourish?"
A study about what makes people not just survive but flourish. It got answers from over 200k people around the world.
The aspects they asked about:
- Happiness and life satisfaction: how content and fulfilled people feel with their lives.
- Physical and mental health: how healthy people feel, in both body and mind.
- Meaning and purpose: whether people feel their lives are significant and moving in a clear direction.
- Character and virtue: how people act to promote good, even in tough situations.
- Close social relationships: how satisfied people are with their friendships and family ties.
- Financial and material stability: whether people feel secure about their basic needs, including food, housing and money.
Honestly the list above for how they broke it down is the main thing I took away from this article. A lot of the data seemed either things I already believe, or were somewhat expected.
There was one stat about work status leading to people flourishing more, which is pretty obvious. I thought it interest that self-employed people were higher than those who worked for others, but I suspect that is a fair bit of survivorship bias as the people working for themselves are the ones who had "made it" and found it able to fund their life, and thus they were happier, and those who tried who make it but fell short are underrepresented as they probably identified more as "working for someone else."
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"17 Ways to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression All at Once"
The main take aways:
The study, which looked at data from 59 meta-analyses, identified six factors that lower your risk of brain diseases:
- Low to moderate alcohol intake (Consuming one to three drinks a day had a smaller benefit than consuming less than one drink a day.)
- Cognitive activity, meaning regular engagement in mentally stimulating tasks like reading or doing puzzles
- A diet high in vegetables, fruit, dairy, fish and nuts
- Moderate or high levels of physical activity
- A sense of purpose in life
- A large social network
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The study also identified 13 health characteristics and habits that make you more likely to develop dementia, a stroke or late-life depression. (Altogether, the protective and harmful factors add up to 19 factors because two of them, diet and social connections, can increase or decrease risk, depending on their type and quality.)
- High blood pressure
- High body mass index
- High blood sugar
- High total cholesterol
- Depressive symptoms
- A diet high in red meat, sugar-sweetened beverages, sweets and sodium
- Hearing loss
- Kidney disease
- Pain, particularly forms that interfere with activity
- Sleep disturbances (for example, insomnia or poor sleep quality) or sleep periods longer than eight hours
- Smoking history
- Loneliness or isolation
- General stress or stressful life events (as reported by study subjects)
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The 'Sinners' Movie's Syllabus
Looks to be an incredible list of resources and things to further research into key areas of the movie, from Jim Crow and the Mississippi Delta, to the blues, the great migration, and more. Wow.
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Mission Impossible (1996)
Crazy to think this movie is 29 years old. I remember seeing it when it came and even then thinking it was kind of hokey. I was also pissed off they killed Emilio Estevez.
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Automated Archives for May, 1st 2025
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Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-6
Net Elo Change: -19
Games Played
- RChevez - LOSS
- RChevez - LOSS
- AIzbiakov - LOSS
- johnnyegg - LOSS
- swissdave2024 - LOSS
- Wasek70 - LOSS
- MoaOpfer2K - WIN
- Mambolillo - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- May 1, 2024 (1 post)
- May 1, 2023 (2 posts)
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