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Fix Your Shoulder and Back Pain, How to Live Long, Enjoy Wasting Time

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Mario Peshev
May 14, 2022

Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins

3 Ideas For Better Habits

1

Hang From A Bar to Fix Shoulder and Back Pain

John M. Kirsch, M.D., an Orthopaedic Surgeon, on a simple exercise to fix shoulder pain based on 25 years of research:

"The daily life of modern man does not provide sufficient opportunity to properly stretch this important part of the shoulder, the CA arch. The hanging exercise, using the force of gravity, will provide the force and stretching that will reverse the process that led to the deformity and inertia of the CA arch. Hanging from an overhead support is an important normal human activity that modern man has neglected.” Source: ​Shoulder Pain? The Solution and Prevention.​

2

Loneliness Kills

Robert Waldinger, Director of Harvard's 84 year-old longevity study, on the secret to living a long life:

"Loneliness kills. It’s as powerful as smoking or alcoholism...People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely."

"Our study has shown that the people who fared the best were the people who leaned into relationships, with family, with friends, with community.” Source: ​What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | TED​

3

Enjoy Wasting Time

Author Marthe Troly-Curtin on time wasting:

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Source: Phrynette Married​

Productivity Tools and Resources

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Rewrite Your Sentences In Seconds

​Wordtune​ is an AI-powered chrome extension that looks to understand what you’re trying to say, and suggests ways to make your writing more clear, compelling and authentic.

Brain Food

Today I Learned: Left-handed people earn 10% less than their right-handed peers. (​Source​)

Science: Staying neutral on controversial issues makes others think you are dishonest and working against them (​Source​)

Have a productive week,

The Smarter Brain Team