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The Daily Motivation

Follow These Steps To Improve Your Life | Jordan Peterson EP 228

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8893 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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http://www.lewishowes.com/mindset2023 - Order a copy of my new book The Greatness Mindset today! Jordan Peterson, Psychologist and Best-selling Author shares his best advice for those looking to improve the quality of their life. Check out the full episode: https://link.chtbl.com/1093-pod Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter

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0:00.0

You're going to. What do you think of the skills that people should start to develop in their 20s in general?

0:58.0

Well, it certainly doesn't hurt to be in physical, good physical condition so we can walk through it.

1:03.2

Stop drinking too much. How do you know if you're drinking too much?

1:06.0

You regret what you do when you're drinking.

1:09.3

It's interfering with other important goals. It's causing you financial distress. It's

1:14.3

getting you in trouble with your friends or your family. It's getting you in

1:17.2

trouble with the police. So stop abusing substances if you can. Physical health, are you in decent shape? Are you strong and

1:25.6

coordinated? And if you're not, you'd be better if you were. You'd feel better, you'd be more

1:31.3

effective, you'd live longer, you'd'd be less sick and you really see that

1:34.5

mount up like if someone's been in shape once in their life they age way better and

1:40.1

it's also a really good way of maintaining your cognitive ability.

1:43.0

You know, you hear about those exercises that you can do online to make you smarter

1:46.8

and keep your cognitive ability intact. Those don't work.

1:49.6

Exercise works. Cardiovascular and weightlifting, you start to decline in your

1:55.2

fluid intelligence at about the age of 25 and it's a linear trend downhill and it can

1:59.3

accelerate as you get older. If you exercise you stave that off, maintain your relationships and foster them.

2:06.8

So when I look at successful people, they're really good at something, they're reliable,

2:11.7

you can count on their word. They're generous and they have a wide wide connection network which becomes more and more valuable as you get older.

2:20.0

So it's one advantage that older people really have over younger people. They have a connection network and a connection network is huge.

2:26.8

You could be connected to a thousand well connected people.

2:30.4

Okay, that means you are connected to the entire world. It's unbelievably valuable.

2:36.0

And that's one of the things that's so absolutely remarkable about the situation that I'm in right now as far as one of the great benefits is I can contact pretty much anybody and they'll talk to me

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