The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Science, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

You know that feeling you get when you eat comfort food? There is something magical about it. This episode begins by exploring why some foods become comfort food while other food does not and what causes us to feel so fondly about certain foods but not others. https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2015/03/052.html What are the secrets to being a successful adult? That’s a hard question to answer but Gretchen Rubin joins me to take a swing at it. Gretchen is wildly successful expert on happiness having written books on the topic and she is also host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. (https://gretchenrubin.com/podcasts/). Her latest book is called Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives (https://amzn.to/3RutUfP). What’s fun is that Gretchen writes about adulthood in aphorisms – short saying that say a lot. Here’s one to give you a sample: "Don’t do something to make yourself feel better if it is only going to make you feel worse.” Listen as Gretchen frames adulthood in these easy to digest nuggets and offers some valuable insight. Do you have good mental health? What does that even mean – to have good mental health? That is what Dr. Drew Ramsey is here to discuss> He is a board-certified psychiatrist, and pioneer in nutritional psychiatry and mental fitness and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Ramsey says there is strong evidence that our lifestyle can have a big impact on mental health and that we can do things to build our mental fitness in much the same way as we can improve our physical fitness. Dr. Ramsey is author of the book Healing the Modern Brain: Nine Tenets to Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind (https://amzn.to/4j8hqXf). You need to drink more water! It is common advice, and it turns out to be pretty solid. Listen as I reveal some of the benefits you get when you hydrate yourself that you may not realize. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/health/a2714/body-without-enough-water/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! FACTOR: Eat smart with Factor! Get 50% off at https://FactorMeals.com/something50off TIMELINE: Get 10% off your order of Mitopure! Go to https://Timeline.com/SOMETHING INDEED: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING right now! SHOPIFY: Nobody does selling better than Shopify! Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk and upgrade your selling today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I am Kristen Rousseau. And I am Jenny Owen Youngs. We are the hosts of Buffering the Vampire Slayer, once more, with spoilers, a rewatch podcast covering all 144 episodes of, you guessed it, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
0:15.5	We are here to humbly invite you to join us for our fifth Buffy prom, which, if you can believe it,
0:24.1	we are hosting at the actual Sunnydale High School. That's right. On April 4th and 5th,
0:30.1	we will be descending upon the campus of Torrance High School, which was the filming location
0:34.9	for Buffy's Sunnydale High, to dance the night away, to 90s music in the iconic courtyard,
0:41.0	to sip on punch right next to the Sunnydale High fountain,
0:44.0	and to nerd out together in our prom best inside of the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
0:49.8	All information and tickets can be found at bufferingcast.com slash prom.
0:55.9	Come join us.
0:58.8	Today on something you should know, you probably have some favorite comfort foods, but why those foods?
1:06.6	Then some great, quick, and insightful tips on how to be a successful adult.
1:11.6	Here's one I think that is very helpful.
1:15.6	Before declaring that something is superficial, unhealthy, inefficient, dangerous, disgusting, or immoral,
1:24.6	we should consider maybe this just doesn't suit my taste.
1:28.3	Also, some wonderful benefits of drinking more water you may not know, and important ways
1:34.3	for you to improve your own mental health.
1:38.3	These are some of the core tenets that I really want people to focus on, say, making better human
1:43.3	connections, or building more
1:45.2	self-awareness, living a life with more purpose. If there is a bench press for mental health,
1:50.8	these tenants help answer some of that. All this today on Something You Should Know.
1:57.9	For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to.
2:05.3	The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience, meaning if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one.
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