What actually matters in your 50s

🌟Discover the revolutionary mindset shifts that transform your 50s from a crisis into an upgrade.

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1. This is Why You Are Not Disciplined - https://youtu.be/aXw9647txUQ

2. What actually matters in your 40s - https://youtu.be/jRsZaza6AXI

3. Why 97% Of Students Study Wrong (Fix This NOW) - https://youtu.be/-JeUd9uQMhc

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0:00 - Introduction

1:09 - Chapter 1: "The Metabolism Decoder"

2:30 - Chapter 2: "Strength Currency"

3:45 - Chapter 3: "The Brain Advantage"

5:03 - Chapter 4: "The Relationship Portfolio"

6:24 - Chapter 5: "The Purpose Pivot"

7:57 - Chapter 6: "Financial Evolution"

9:15 - Chapter 7: "The Time Redesign”

10:25 - Chapter 8: "The Health Span Strategy”

11:48 - Chapter 9: "The Legacy Framework"

13:02 - Chapter 10: “The Integration Practice”

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS

1/ The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 by Jonathan Rauch

https://amzn.to/4lRnTY4

2/ Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge, M.D.

https://amzn.to/4kIoA52

3/ The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner

https://amzn.to/4kvjjxm

4/ Successful Aging by Daniel J. Levitin

https://amzn.to/4eJIbQR

5/ Strength Training Past 50 by Wayne L. Westcott & Thomas R. Baechle

https://amzn.to/3GjATGP

6/ The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

https://amzn.to/4kuyoz9

7/ Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett

https://amzn.to/3U3ZyCf

8/ Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García

https://amzn.to/4eFCWBy

9/ Atomic Habits by James Clear

https://amzn.to/3GFd642

10/ The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister

https://amzn.to/4lnwkKA

RESEARCH PAPERS

1/ Purpose in Life Is Associated With Mortality Among Community-Dwelling Older Persons by Patricia A. Boyle et al.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2740716/

Demonstrates that having a greater sense of purpose in life.

2/ Why Social Relationships Are Important for Physical Health: A Systems Approach to Understanding and Modifying Risk and Protection by Julianne Holt-Lunstad

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29035688/

Reviews evidence that strong social connections have powerful influences on health and longevity.

3/ Trajectories of Normal Cognitive Aging by Timothy A. Salthouse

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6367038/

Explores the patterns of cognitive aging, distinguishing between normal cognitive changes and those associated with pathology.

4/ 'Small Changes' to Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors for Weight Management by Andrew P Hills, et al.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5644785/

Analyzes how incremental, sustained changes in daily habits can lead to significant improvements in health.

5/ Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review by Julianne Holt-Lunstad et al.

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000316

Meta-analysis showing that people with stronger social relationships have a 50% increased likelihood of survival.

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This is Why You Are Not Disciplined

🧠 Discover the science behind why your brain sabotages your best intentions and learn practical strategies to work WITH your biology, not against it.

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1. What actually matters in your 40s - https://youtu.be/jRsZaza6AXI

2. Why 97% Of Students Study Wrong (Fix This NOW) - https://youtu.be/-JeUd9uQMhc

3. You've Been Resting Wrong Your Entire Life - https://youtu.be/HP1Jxmatz9w

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0:00 - Introduction

1:17 - Chapter 1: "Your Brain on Discipline"

2:32 - Chapter 2: "The Wednesday Effect"

3:44 - Chapter 3: "The Willpower Trap"

4:59 - Chapter 4: "Your Inner Saboteur"

6:12 - Chapter 5: "The Environment You Don't See"

7:39 - Chapter 6: "Systems Beat Goals"

8:56 - Chapter 7: "Identity Over Action

10:19 - Chapter 8: "The Compound Effect”

11:39 - Chapter 9: "Design Your Default"

12:59 - Chapter 10: “The Minimum Viable Habit”

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS

1/ Atomic Habits by James Clear

https://amzn.to/4ewYkJl

2/ The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

https://amzn.to/3I8nEsV

3/ Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierneyhttps://amzn.to/4l5j4u5

4/ Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg

https://amzn.to/44bcnke

5/ Deep Work by Cal Newport

https://amzn.to/44DlOrM

6/ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

https://amzn.to/4nCc3mm

7/ Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

https://amzn.to/4nwe9nr

8/ The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

https://amzn.to/46ra3Hc

9/ Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

https://amzn.to/4kkmvM8

10/ Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

https://amzn.to/4038onf

RESEARCH PAPERS

1/ Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource? by Roy F. Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Mark Muraven, Dianne M. Tice

https://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/345/345%20Articles/Baumeister%20et%20al.%20(1998).pdf

Demonstrates that acts of self-control draw on a limited resource.

2/ A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels by Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini, Vladas Griskevicius

https://scispace.com/papers/a-room-with-a-viewpoint-using-social-norms-to-motivate-2k1w40c3hq

Shows how environmental cues and social norms can nudge people toward desired behaviors.

3/ Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch

https://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Papers/deadlines.pdf

Examines the effectiveness of systems and precommitment strategies in overcoming procrastination.

4/ Identity-Based Motivation: Implications for Health and Health Disparities by Daphna Oyserman, George C. Smith, Kristen Elmore

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/107506/josi12056.pdf

Explores how adopting an identity-based approach leads to more consistent and lasting behavior change.

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What actually matters in your 40s

Whether you're approaching 40, living it, or reflecting on it, this video provides a roadmap for making your most intentional, integrated, and impactful decade yet. 🎯

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1. Why 97% Of Students Study Wrong (Fix This NOW) - https://youtu.be/-JeUd9uQMhc

2. You've Been Resting Wrong Your Entire Life - https://youtu.be/HP1Jxmatz9w

3. You’re Doing Better Than You Think (Here’s Proof) - https://youtu.be/Ry4EqMnIEew

TIMESTAMP

0:00 - Introduction

1:17 - Chapter 1: "Time Scarcity As Liberation"

2:35 - Chapter 2: "The "Enough" Principle"

4:06 - Chapter 3: "Energy Management Revolution"

7:04 - Chapter 4: "The Art Of Strategic No"

8:27 - Chapter 5: "Peak Earning Strategy"

10:05 - Chapter 6: "Health As Future Investment"

11:23 - Chapter 7: "Relationship Intentionality"

12:41 - Chapter 8: "The Wisdom Premium”

13:57 - Chapter 9: "Emotional Intelligence Advantage"

15:06 - Chapter 10: “Legacy Consciousness”

💡📚 Below is a curated list of books and research papers that further explore some of the concepts discussed in this video. (some links are affiliate links, which help support my channel)

BOOKS

1/ Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

https://amzn.to/3I1wubO

2/ Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

https://amzn.to/4lrxW5H

3/ Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguezhttps://amzn.to/3TIXRKm

4/ The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

https://amzn.to/3ZRQ1l8

5/ Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia

https://amzn.to/3I0q50B

6/ Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

https://amzn.to/4nCX8Iy

7/ Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

https://amzn.to/44snIeJ

8/ Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman

https://amzn.to/4nvMfrZ

9/ The Earned Life by Marshall Goldsmith

https://amzn.to/46gZtm0

10/ Atomic Habits by James Clear

https://amzn.to/3GhH5Ps

RESEARCH PAPERS

1/ Putting Time in Perspective: A Valid, Reliable Individual-Differences Metric by Philip G. Zimbardo and John N. Boyd

https://scienceofbehaviorchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/TimePerspective.Zimbardo.1999.pdf

2/ Time Perspective: A Systematic Review

https://ijip.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/18.01.035.20251301.pdf

3/ The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz (book, but core concept summarized in academic and popular sources)

https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/economics/the-paradox-of-choice

4/ Health, Disease, and Chronobiology by Harvard Medicine Magazine (feature on Czeisler’s research)

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/health-disease-and-chronobiology

5/ Articulating the Case for the Longevity Dividend by S. Jay Olshansky et al.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4743068/

6/ Developing Student Leader Emotional and Social Communication Skills by Ronald E. Riggio

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1419736.pdf

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