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1. There is no limit to what one can do

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2. How did the hand thing work???

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3. Everyone you meet has something to teach you. Don't assume you are better. Even a student teaches the teacher sometimes.

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4. This channel is so great,i believe that it also change many life who suffer from mental illness.

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5. Once your mindset changes everything on the outside will change along with it.

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6. LISTENING to what he said is simple, yet it appears it isn't easy for many…but is a success tip for all time.

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7. "here's some kool-aid to keep you oppressed and compliant; if we tell you to think you're happy you will" Good lil' sheeple.

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8. Who disliked this video? WHO DISLIKED THIS VIDEO!?

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9. You went from being somebody that matters so much to me after the last words out of your mouth made no sense at all. You are a liar I will no longer live on this planet as everytime you look up you see these things cald -stars which has a son

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10. Mu take on Daniel's Point about the E???
    I wrote the E(subconsciously ofcoz) from the other person's perspective which I think is good. So long as you can see things from other people's perspective you will more often than not have smooth relationships. But he didn't put it that way.
    He said argue like you are right but listen like you are wrong.

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11. Summary
    1. Argue like you are right but listen like you are wrong
    2. In life don't take the shortcuts
    3. Animals live in the present but we understand time (the future)
    4. Become the key to every door
    5. Don't be insensitive but at the same time don't worry about what other people think
    6. When you have meaning and purpose in life you will grow in every direction
    7. Your life is not about you
    8. Success is a combination of talent, passion and education
    9. Everyone has their own Everest. Conquer your own
    10. About half of our happiness is determined by us (our thoughts).

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12. The marshmallow test is about taking risks. We're taught a bird in a hand beats two in the bush. Think the real lesson is that people who take risks are more successful in the long run. You're betting that one marshmallow in the hand against a future 2 marshmallows. You don't know if you can trust that future 2 marshmallows. As adults its the same thing. You have a job with security today or maybe invest your paycheck and get rich someday in the future. The people who take the marshmallow now are safe and the people who take the risk of losing it all by holding out for 2 ends up rich. So take risks!

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13. Don’t take the shortcut; rather, find the most efficient way to achieve the same results, or better results.

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14. Quoting and copying others will melt you into a puddle agree. Marrying for bucks , is a big time taking a short cut , that will not end will and make you unhappy.

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15. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung
    
    Many congratulations and everyone must watch best motivational videos here ? #beyondresist
    
    Let's grow more…

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16. If you accept Yeshua ,everything will be worked out for good because He loves us

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17. Kaku is wrong he misunderstood the experiment, just watch an interview with the author of the marshmallow test or read his book

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18. #1 confused me because of the permanent ringtone. ??

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19. Meditation, happy friends, friends at work

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20. This videos motivated to do something

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21. Cool story, by why would you draw a back asswards 3 on your own forehead?? ?

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22. A Mind Hack for Motivation and Happiness: Or a simple procedure for Self-Control derived from the simple act of resting, and all explained through basic affective neuroscience

    The neuropsychology of resting states is generally neglected in cognitive and affective neuroscience as both use methodologies (e.g. brain scans; ‘in vivo’ direct manipulations of brain cells), that cannot account for afferent inputs from the musculature. Yet a neuroscientific explanation of rest is arguably key to our capacity for self-motivation and a sense of purpose and positive feeling or happiness. This can be explained through elementary observations from affective neuroscience and demonstrated procedurally.

    Rest, or the generalized inactivity of the covert musculature, is simple to describe as a somatic or bodily state, but is much more complex as a neurologic state. For one thing, it is pleasurable. The reduction of perseverative cognition (worry, regret, distraction) through meditation, eyes closed rest, or just walking on a beach thinking of nothing gives the musculature the time to completely relax, and this state of persistent or profound relaxation elicits a state of pleasure or mild euphoria due to the concomitant and sustained elicitation of endogenous opioids (or endorphins) in the brain. The sustained increase of endogenous opioids also down regulates opioid receptors, and thus inhibits the salience or reward value of other substances (food, alcohol, drugs) that otherwise increase opioid levels, and therefore reduces cravings. Profound relaxation also mitigates our sensitivity to pain and inhibits tension. In this way, relaxation causes pleasure, enhances self-control, counteracts and inhibits stress, reduces pain, and provides for a feeling of satisfaction and equanimity that is the hallmark of the so-called meditative state.

    However, pleasure from a neurologic viewpoint is not a simple thing. Groups of opioid neurons or ‘nuclei’ populate a tiny region of the neural real estate in the midbrain, and as ‘hot spots’ are collectively no larger than the eraser on a pencil. Yet they are highly sensitive to inputs from different sources in the brain. One of the primary inputs come from dopaminergic neurons, whose nuclei are adjacent to opioid neurons. The axons for dopaminergic neurons project from the midbrain to the cortex, and dopamine systems are highly sensitive to cortically processed information, namely novel and positive act-outcome expectancies or surprises that populate our days. Dopamine is a neuromodulator, or a type of neurotransmitter that activates arrays of neurons in the cortex, and is responsible for learning and motivation. Dopamine induces attentive arousal, but not pleasure, but it can indirectly increase pleasure if it occurs concurrently with the co-activation of opioid systems. For example, eat a very tasty treat, and dopamine activity will increase as you snap to attention in response to the pleasure. Conversely, the florid description of a bottle of wine will make the wine taste better because of an increase in dopaminergic activity that in turn increases opioid levels in the brain (this is also the mechanism behind the placebo effect where positive expectations change affect). In sum, opioid and dopamine systems are synergistic, and if concurrently activated will co-activate each other.

    So what does this have to do with resting and motivation?

    Since resting protocols (e.g. mindfulness, eyes closed rest, meditation) induce opioid activity, that activity will be accentuated if an individual concurrently and persistently thinks of and pursues meaningful behavior (meaning will be defined as thinking of or doing actions that have branching novel positive implications, or a variant of positive thinking). Since meaningful behavior induces dopamine release, this establishes a ‘virtuous’ neurological circuit, when rest can be merged with meaning and lead to pleasurably aroused states or even ecstasy. We can infer these processes from variants of meditation such as ‘loving kindness’ meditation and savoring, as well as peak and ‘flow’ experiences where highly meaningful activity is coupled with non-stressed or resting states. Above all, meaningful behavior is productive behavior that has positive novel and unfolding implications, and when associated with positive affect from rest, can become in a sense ‘autotelic’ or rewarding in itself, allowing us to control our behavior through self-induced positive affect. By coming to terms with the neurologic reality of relaxation, we can realize it’s possibilities as essential to daily life and to self-control that make life worthwhile, pleasurable, productive, and ‘happy’.

    Authors Note
    
    You can pursue a much more expansive argument for a lay audience in my two open-source books and journal article below on the psychology of rest and the psychology of incentive motivation.
    
    Also, my arguments above are not new science, but a new interpretation of the research of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, who was kind to vet my books for accuracy and to provide endorsements in their preface.

    Meditation and Rest- The American Psychologist/David Holmes
    
    https://www.scribd.com/document/291558160/Holmes-Meditation-and-Rest-The-American-Psychologist

    The Psychology of Rest and Meditation, from the International Journal of Stress Management, by this author
    
    https://www.scribd.com/doc/121345732/Relaxation-and-Muscular-Tension-A-bio-behavioristic-explanation

    For an excellent take on opioid and dopamine systems and how they act and interact, see
    
    The Joyful Mind: Kringelbach and Berridge
    
    https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf

    A more formal explanation of this procedure from affective neuroscience is provided on pp. 44-52 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. Flow is discussed on pp. 82-87
    
    https://www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing

    ‘A Mouse’s Tale’ Learning theory for a lay audience from the perspective of modern affective neuroscience
    
    https://www.scribd.com/document/495438436/A-Mouse-s-Tale-a-practical-explanation-and-handbook-of-motivation-from-the-perspective-of-a-humble-creature

    Berridge Lab
    
    https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/

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23. Did not watch whole thing because marshmallows are gross and I would have picked none at any age so what category is that

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