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Victor J. Strecher

Life on Purpose

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A pioneer in the field of behavioral science delivers a groundbreaking work that shows how finding your purpose in life leads to better health and overall happiness.
Your life is a boat. You need a rudder. But it doesn’t matter how much wind is in your sails if you’re not steering toward a harbor—an ultimate purpose in your life.
While the greatest philosophers have pondered purpose for centuries, today it has been shown to have a concrete impact on our health. Recent studies into Alzheimer’s, heart disease, stroke, depression, functional brain imaging, and measurement of DNA repair are shedding new light on how and why purpose benefits our lives.
Going beyond the fads, opinions, and false hopes of “expert” self-help books, Life on Purpose explores the incredible connection between purposeful living and the latest scientific evidence on quality of life and longevity. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, literature, psychology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and neuroscience, as well as his experience in public health research, Dr. Vic Strecher reveals the elements necessary for a purposeful life and how to acquire them, and outlines an elegant strategy for improving energy, willpower, and long-term happiness, and well-being. He integrates these core themes into his own personal story—a tragedy that led him to reconsider his own life—and how a deeper understanding of purposeful living helped him not only survive, but thrive.
Illuminating, accessible, and authentically grounded in real people’s experiences, Life on Purpose is essential reading for everyone seeking lasting improvement in their lives.
Social PsychologyHealth & FitnessHealthy LivingPsychology
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248 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
Publishers
HarperCollins, HarperOne
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    One of the big issues in quitting smoking is temptation resulting from thoughts of cigarettes. The more that would-be quitters think about notthinking about them, the more they do. In psychology, this is called the “white bear” effect, from a phrase in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Winter Notes on Summer Impressions:“Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.”4
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        We started talking about his interesting occupation, and I brought up the subject of Julia’s “miraculous” recovery from a series of six heart attacks and lack of brain response. He looked into the distance and responded, “I saw a very similar case last year. An older man in our ICU had a sudden heart attack, and we couldn’t revive him. After essentially calling it quits, he popped up and started talking to us. It really freaked us all out! Then he died a few hours later.” He mused, “I think the body may have the ability to reboot itself in the way a seemingly dead computer can reboot. I can’t understand how, but I’ve seen it.”
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