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“Turns out those people are much more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorder than people who do affiliate with some kind of religious community.”

“And it turns out that these studies around ego depletion could not replicate. We couldn't find the effect. And so there was one exception to this, and that exception was in a study done by Carol Dweck. She's one of my research heroes. She wrote the book Mindse…”

“He goes into the operating room, and the doctors, for 55 minutes, cut into flesh and bone, pull out metal screws from his body with zero local anesthesia, zero general anesthesia, All through the power of his mind.”

“There's an amazing study done at Yale where they found that people who have positive views about aging at age 30 live seven and a half years longer. Now, to put that in perspective, Cody, seven and a half years longer, that is more than the effect of exercise,…”

“Well, it turns out it's not true. That when we try and replicate those studies, and this happens in the social science, this is how science works. Science doesn't say anything. Science is the process of doing repeated experiments and seeing if they replicate, …”

“We have external triggers. These are things in our outside environment, the usual suspects, the pings, the dings, the rings, all this stuff in our outside environment, which we tend to blame for distraction. But studies find that's only 10% of the reason we ge…”

“Now that's about three to five percent of the population is pathologically addicted, but we toss out this word addiction all the time.”

“So don't believe these chicken little tech critics that say video games are melting your brain and Facebook is melting your brain and everything is melting your brain. Ridiculous. The science doesn't support that at all, right?”

“What they haven't talked about is, for example, that LGBTQ suicide has dropped, largely because one of the reasons, not the only reason, but one of the reasons is that people from disparate groups, if you lived in that small town and nobody was like you becaus…”

“I think the blowback would be so severe if they tried to do something about it that I can't see that on their radar.”

“Everything that kills kids, everything that harms kids, not just kills kids, it harms kids, is down to record lows. Homicide, record lows. Truancy, record lows. Drug use, record lows. Pregnancy, record lows. Incarceration, record lows. All these things are at …”

“Those authors, Seligman and Meyer, declared that they had gotten the study a hundred percent backwards. That the study results were a 180 degrees the opposite of what they thought. That we don't learn helplessness, that's our default.”

“The rats didn't swim four times longer. They didn't swim for 60 minutes. They swam for 60 hours. They went from 15 minutes to 240 times more persistent.”

“It turns out the biggest religious community in America today, the largest religious group are nuns, not the Catholic nuns, not N-U-N, N-O-N-E, people who don't affiliate with any religion”

“It turns out that the people who learned how to pray and the people who prayed out of a faith tradition had a much higher pain tolerance than the people who didn't pray at all.”

“Studies have found 10% of the time you check your phone, is it because of some kind of ping, ding, or ring? 90% of the time, it's because of an internal trigger.”

“Every time you think of a memory, you are actually revising it in your brain.”

“Elizabeth Loftus has these amazing studies where she implants memories of people going on a hot air balloon ride that never happened, and they'll describe the wind in their hair and the color of the balloon completely made up.”

“On average studies have found that tasks take people three times longer to finish than they estimate.”

“This research actually comes from the psychology of religion, where we know that people who have some kind of identity, some kind of noun they use to describe yourself, themselves, are much more likely to do what they say they're going to do.”

“One of the leading causes of insomnia, Is rumination, right? Chewing on the fact that you can't go to sleep for hour after hour, and stressing out about, well, if I don't get to sleep, then I won't be able to do that presentation, and my whole day is going to …”

“I came across a study that found that the most effective smoking cessation study in history Was a study that simply paid people to quit smoking, and not only that, it was even more effective if the person had to put some skin in the game. So in this experiment…”