MR LIFE

LIFE WITH ITS UPS AND DOWNS CAN BE A LONG AND COLORFUL PATH! EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED. 26.2X4 MTB

[American Nomad @coffee_n_mtns]

Take more pictures. Always say I love you. Never go to bed mad. Jump first, think second. Love harder. Love deeper. Life is too short.

[Yaron Meirovitch @YaronMeirovitch]

Massive synaptic pruning between birth and adulthood: the nervous system gets simpler with age! Two-decade connectomic effort in Lichtman lab @harvard reveals how the order in which motor neurons activate decides which connections survive. @NatureNeuro 👉 https://t.co/RqDv6Ea3hM

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

This is the same for running!
I run every day ❤️🏃‍♂️

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

Cosmic Creek
97th Annual Surf Festival
Salt Creek California

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within- Ariel Durant

[Patrick Aldrin @dpatrickaldrin]

Charlie Munger was a philosopher who's net worth was $2.6 billion.

In 1986, he gave a speech teaching how to guarantee a miserable life.

Most heard the comedy. Few caught the framework.

50 years later, it's the most underrated tool in self-help.

Here's the move: 🧵

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

Monarch Beach California

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

Dana Point Harbor California

[Melinda Howard @MelindaHoward4]

Happy #NationalCrawfishDay 🦞

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

What is Life?
George Harrison

https://t.co/yCKUbgS5Ah

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

@MelindaHoward4 From Michele

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

United We Stand
Divided We Fall
The world and this country
is so divided it’s inevitable

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

The ocean is dark and deep and absorbs the chaos

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

AI won’t replace you,
A person using it will

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

Life is given form from nothingness

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

Waiting for the perfect wave

[MR LIFE @LETUSCONECT]

Devices with batteries are like children,
you have to keep feeding them all the time

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

🎙 The Beatles - Revolution

[仏師・『快慶』の仏像 @kaikei33]

【京都・大報恩寺/十大弟子立像＜一部＞(鎌倉)】像高90cm前後。十体ともほぼ完全な状態である。目犍連尊者像に「巧匠法眼快慶」と墨書。他像には銘記はないが群像のまとまりから、始めから一具であり快慶の一門によって造立されたと思われる。