This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2077. Don't be a flatliner by a lendmassycottoffreedipursu.com

and I'm Justin Mollick, the guy that reads to you every single day of the year,

from the best blogs I can find covering personal development or self-help,

minimalism, productivity, and more. Now with that, let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

Don't be a flatliner by lendmassycottoffreedipursu.com. I first started noticing them well before the hype of

the TV show and movies, these people who seem to have no pulse, no passion, no soul. These people that I

call the walking dead. At various levels of predictable speed from dragging their feet to being

lost in a adrenaline-filled busyness, did get through the day every day as if life were something

to merely survive as opposed to something we should feel privileged to experience. I remember

the first one I ever saw, it was in January 2001. I started working at Megacorp only four months

before. It was about 8 a.m. and he was pressing the elevator button to get to his cubicle and start

his day. He was expressionless, resigned. How did he get that way, I wondered? Could you recover?

If I fall into this state, could I? Little did I know that I'd seek to answer these questions

for decades. I've a renewed sense of urgency in the matter because the infection seems to be

spreading. We're all sorts of busy, and the busier we are, the more disengaged we become.

We've lost our rhythm, we've lost our pulse. Too many of us are flatlining decades before our time.

We cease to live well before our body grows clammy. At the root of this premature personal rot,

is a lie. This lies the belief that we're machines that were expected to stay focused, to stay on

task at a steady clip for 8, 10, 12 plus hours a day. Be always on, always available at the world's

beckon call. Instead of turning out our own version of widgets day in and day out, we're built

to follow natural rhythms, circadian, cardiac, energy rhythms, but we've lost the beat.

And our bodies are a reflection of our lack of attention. As a society, we suffer from everything

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