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OK so. Earlier this week I spent 10 minutes examining every inch of my naked body in the mirror…an exercise in extreme suffering I undertook in the pursuit of enlightenment because Stephan Bodian told me to.

Bodian is a former monk, psychotherapist, pioneering Western Zen teacher, and the original author of Meditation For Dummies. He also has a brand spanking new book out called Infinite Awakening: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/infinite-awakening-9780834846494

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Recent science has told us that gratitude has the power to do something nothing else in the world can. It can get you off the hedonic treadmill. We go deep into what that means, and look at said science :)

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Here are all the studies with their links:

Emmons & McCullough (2003) — Gratitude journaling, well-being, and physical health

• PubMed
• Full PDF

Wood, Joseph, Lloyd & Atkins (2009) — Gratitude and sleep quality

• PubMed
• ScienceDirect

Mills et al. (2015) — Gratitude and heart failure (mood, sleep, inflammation)

• PubMed

Redwine et al. (2016) — Gratitude journaling RCT, inflammatory biomarkers, heart rate variability

• PubMed
• PMC Full Text

Grant & Gino (2010) — Gratitude expressions and prosocial behavior

• Harvard Business School
• Semantic Scholar

Wood, Froh & Geraghty (2010) — Comprehensive review of gratitude and well-being

• ScienceDirect

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If you're a writer, musician, entrepreneur - someone building something in the margins of your real life, this one is for you.

My guest today is Caddicarus: over a million subscribers, nearly 400 million views, and a very honest bloke.

Here's the thing so many of us carry without even realising it, the belief that the moment we hit the number, whatever your number is, life clicks into place. Caddickarus has the number and he still found himself burnt out, hollow, losing the will to make the very thing that made him who he is.

The data doesn't keep you going. The passion keeps you going. The why keeps you going.

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