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Jul 2024
45m 24s

How To Make Your Life Exciting Again

Mel Robbins
About this episode

New research shows that your work, your life, and your relationships will get boring. 

Today, you’ll learn a simple tool you can use to make your life exciting, joyful, and energizing again. 

This profound conversation will allow you to truly understand and connect the dots between why you've become bored with what used to excite you – and how you can create more meaning in your life.

In this episode, Mel is joined by the renowned neuroscientist from University College London and MIT, Dr. Tali Sharot. 

She is here to teach you the groundbreaking science and research about how you can start feeling excitement about your life again.

Dr. Sharot is a behavioral neuroscientist and the director of the Affective Brain Lab at University College London. Her research integrates neuroscience, behavioral economics, and psychology to study how emotion and behavior influences people's beliefs and decisions.

After today, you will know how to use Dr. Sharot’s research to make your life sparkle again and reignite happiness in your day-to-day life.

You’ll also learn very specific, tactical things you can do to make your vacations better, avoid a midlife crisis, and improve the experience of your everyday life.

For more resources, including links to Dr. Tali’s books, website, and research, click here for the podcast episode page. 

If you liked this episode with Dr. Tali Sharot, you will love her first appearance on The Mel Robbins Podcast: How to Motivate Yourself (and Others) to Change Any Behavior

And to go deeper in the themes of this episode, you’ll love this one: 5 Fun Ideas to Shake Up Your Life & Get Out Of A Rut

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