The Long Game 85: Best of 2021, the Power of Positivity, Giving Advice
The Long Game 85: Best of 2021, the Power of Positivity, Giving Advice🧠 Best Podcasts, Best Books, Best Tools, Muscle IQ Test, China in Africa, and Much More!Hi there, it’s Mehdi Yacoubi, co-founder at Vital, and this is The Long Game Newsletter. To receive it in your inbox each week, subscribe here: In this episode, I wanted to do something a bit different. As 2021 comes to a close, I thought it would be interesting to review and list the best content I’ve shared this year. 🥑 HealthWhen it comes to health, a lot happened in 2021. The three most important things were:
Overheard:
"I wish there was a "fitness social network" sort of like Peloton, but including everything. The Apple Fitness sharing is closest, but I don't want to give my phone/email to the whole internet."
The answer?
↳ @joinvital 🏗
If you're suffering from chronic pain, please do yourself a favor and read about mindbody syndrome.
After trying everything possible, reading one book on this basically cured my 3+ years of chronic back pain.
Nothing better than starting the day with strength training. It sets the mind right, and 99% of your problems will feel inconsequential/totally manageable
🌱 Wellness➕ The Power of Positive PeopleLet’s finish 2021 with the power of positive people that we covered in TLG 64: We all intuitively know how different we feel with positive versus negative people. I loved this article because it argues that positive people in your life are an essential part of living a long healthy life.
There’s nothing fundamentally new here. We talked about the effects of loneliness on health a few weeks ago. It seems that the opposite is also true: being surrounded by great, positive people has beneficial health outcomes:
For more, this research paper makes the point that optimism is associated with exceptional longevity in both men and women: 🧠 Better Thinking💭 Understanding AdviceAs the year comes to a close, many people come up with reflections, reviews, and advice they wish they had. As a general rule, I tend to be very cautious when listening to advice. I often come back to the idea that giving advice doesn’t work in many cases. It’s a mix of a survivorship bias and giving advice to ourselves that we make universal when it should not. While listening to Bryan Johnson, I really liked his perspective on advice. He explains:
We tend to love “recipes,” frameworks, and playbooks, but you can’t follow something blindly and expect it to work. ⚡️ Startup StuffHere are my favorite startup resources of the year: 📚 What I ReadMy favorite books of 2021: 🎙 Podcast Episodes of the YearHere are the best podcast episodes of 2021:
🍭 Brain Food🔮 The Next Big ThingAt the end of each year, Nikhil Basu Trivedi comes up with some important trends for the year to come. I think that most of these are spot on, and the one I most agree with is Balaji’s prediction on the rise of health optimization and longevity. "The gradual big thing over the course of the 2020s is transhumanism. Quantified self, fitness trackers and CGMs, mRNA vaccines, gene therapy for monogenic disorders.. and especially reversing aging and life extension...the technology keeps steadily improving."
— @balajis 🧬♾ 🎥 What I’m Watching🇨🇳🌍 The Truth About China in AfricaAn interesting and measured take on what China is doing in Africa. 🧠 The Muscle IQ TestThis is an interesting test to see where your muscle/strength training knowledge stands. 🔧 The Tools of the YearThere are a few tools I greatly enjoyed using this year: I already shared it last week, but if you’re looking for a template to conduct your annual review, this is a great one. 🪐 Quote I’m Pondering
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