Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite Size, Your Weekly Dose of Optimism and

Positiveity to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 112 of

the podcast with Dr. Daniel Levitin and Euro Scientist, cognitive psychologist

and best-selling author. In this clip, he outlined some of the key factors that

will enhance our lives right now, as well as increase our health span and not just

our lifespan.

The number one factor that influences how you're going to fare at any age is a

personality trait, a mindset, you might call it, of conscientiousness. That swamps

all other factors in terms of whether you're going to be healthy and happy at age

eight or age 108. So I guess, can you finish its husky stawts it? Not only that,

but can you do the best possible job you can? Can you do not just good enough?

Can you try to push yourself to do more, to do better? Can you grow in whatever it

is that you're doing if it's keeping a garden, if it's cooking for yourself and

your family, if it's choosing vegetables, learning which ones to choose at

the market, so you get the most flavorful and healthy ones with the most

nutrients, any area of a human endeavor where you can learn and keep learning is

what's neuroprotective. It's fun. It is fun. Yeah. It's curiosity, really, which

is a separate trait. It's number two on the list, after conscientiousness. Is

it really people who are curious do better in life? So conscientiousness and

curiosity, the two seas of aging well. If you can remain curious and learn new

things, that's neuroprotective. It doesn't mean that you won't get Alzheimer's

or that you can reverse it or slow it down, but it does mean based on the

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