How To Make Your Life Exciting Again

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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New research shows that your work, your life, and your relationships will get boring. Today, you’ll learn a simple tool you can use to make your life exciting, joyful, and energizing again. This profound conversation will allow you to truly understand and connect the dots between why you've become bored with what used to excite you – and how you can create more meaning in your life. In this episode, Mel is joined by the renowned neuroscientist from University College London and MIT, Dr. Tali Sharot. She is here to teach you the groundbreaking science and research about how you can start feeling excitement about your life again. Dr. Sharot is a behavioral neuroscientist and the director of the Affective Brain Lab at University College London. Her research integrates neuroscience, behavioral economics, and psychology to study how emotion and behavior influences people's beliefs and decisions. After today, you will know how to use Dr. Sharot’s research to make your life sparkle again and reignite happiness in your day-to-day life. You’ll also learn very specific, tactical things you can do to make your vacations better, avoid a midlife crisis, and improve the experience of your everyday life. For more resources, including links to Dr. Tali’s books, website, and research, click here for the podcast episode page. If you liked this episode with Dr. Tali Sharot, you will love her first appearance on The Mel Robbins Podcast: How to Motivate Yourself (and Others) to Change Any Behavior And to go deeper in the themes of this episode, you’ll love this one: 5 Fun Ideas to Shake Up Your Life & Get Out Of A Rut Connect with Mel: Watch the episodes on YouTube Go deeper with Mel’s free video course, Make It Happen Follow Mel on Instagram The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram Mel's TikTok Sign up for Mel’s personal letter Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.
0:04.0	You're not going to believe what I did last night.
0:11.0	I mean, just take a guess.
0:12.0	What do you think I did last night. I mean just take a guess. What do you think I did last night?
0:15.9	You're never going to guess this one. Well last night my husband Chris and I pitched a tent in our backyard.
0:23.8	We grabbed a blow-up mattress, a couple of comforters,
0:26.8	two pillows, and we slept out under the stars
0:31.9	in our backyard here in Vermont.
0:34.0	It was a full moon.
0:36.0	It was absolutely incredible.
0:40.0	And we used to do this kind of stuff all the time when we were first dating.
0:43.8	I mean, we were constantly planning fun adventures and camping and like doing cool things outside.
0:49.5	And, you know, we've been married now, my God, it's going to be 28 years this year.
0:53.7	Holy smokes.
0:54.7	And the other day, Chris turned to me and said,
0:57.6	hey Mel, you know, in a couple nights, it's going to be a full moon, weather looks good.
1:01.8	Do you have any interest in sleeping outside in a tent?
1:04.0	I was like, oh my God, yes!
1:06.0	And so we did.
1:08.0	In fact, we did it last night.
1:10.0	And here I was this morning,
1:12.0	after sleeping in the tent last night, I was having my coffee in the house.
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