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» Timestamps ⏱️

00:00 Introduction 💃🏻

01:13 Why Our Brains and Bodies Need Challenge 💪

05:25 Do taxi drivers really have bigger brains? 🤔

08:36 Rewiring Your Identity to Do Hard Things ⚙️

10:59 The 4 Types of Useful Friction 🏔️

12:52 Physical Friction 🏃🏻‍♀️

14:13 Sensory Friction 🙇🏻‍♀️

16:54 Cognitive Friction 🧠

19:28 Social Friction 🥂

21:20 Your Next Steps 🚶🏻‍♀️

Sources 📖

Easter, 2021 (The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self): https://geni.us/3nBei

Hebb, 1949 (The Organization of Behavior): https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2346268_3/component/file_2346267/content

Lieberman, 2020 (Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health): https://geni.us/gwb4sv1

Maguire et al., 2000: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.070039597

Mattson, 2008: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18162444/

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