Simply Good Life — Hell Yeah! | Underpopulation | What Is Dying?
Hi friends,
Here’s another crazy Adam idea: let’s create together a Simply Good Life Network. Read more below.
Plus: Have you really lived today? Do you have an approach on how to make decisions? Do you fear over-population? Enjoy!
Podcast of the Week
I’ve just re-listened to the Tim Ferriss podcast with Derek Sivers. Last time when I listened to it I fell in love with the approach of deciding by asking oneself (this one is especially for Warren):
Is it a “Hell YES!”? If it’s not a “Hell Yes!” so it’s a “No”.
This time I really liked:
“You are whatever you pretend to be” — Kurt Vonnegut
So if you want to be confident, choose to be confident even when you have no reason to. Enjoy!
Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying “No” to Millions — The Tim Ferriss Show — Podcast Notes — podcastnotes.org
Sleep is Your Superpower
Sleep is Mother Nature’s best effort at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this sleep TED talk, Walker shares the good things that happen when you get enough sleep — and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don’t, for both your brain and body. Learn more about sleep’s impact on your learning, memory, immune system and even your genetic code — as well as some helpful tips for getting more sleep.
Matt Walker: Sleep is your superpower | TED Talk — www.ted.com
Lack of sleep is will break your immune system, causes cancer, and is linked to dementia (and other horrible things). A new much-watch TED talk from @sleepdiplomat — please spread this far and wide.
Underpopulation
For many years overpopulation was the Ur-worry. The idea of too many people on a small planet stood behind common environmental worries from pollution to global warming. While the population of humans will continue to rise for at least 40 more years, trends show that a much bigger existential threat lies in global underpopulation. This is a fantastic article by Kevin Kelly, my favorite futurist.
The Underpopulation Bomb — Kevin Kelly — Medium — medium.com
Quote I Love
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Have you lived today? How? Tell me,
Adam
PS: I’d like to make this newsletter much more collaborative. What do you think about creating a Simply Good Life Network where we all provide a list with our favorite happiness videos, books, articles, or pictures that make us happy, that make us optimistic, that improve our lives, that can help others to live a happy life.
Click reply and tell me how we could make it a success, or click reply to send me things that make you happy. Let’s start!
