Eight innocent behaviours that age you twice as fast

Alex Mathers
4 min readAug 4, 2024

I don’t know about you, but I love life enough to want to experience it for as long as possible.

What do we do that ages us in mind and body?

Here are my thoughts:

Ruminating on shit you regret.

There’s no more efficient waste of your time than sitting up in bed at 3am in the morning in a sweat, thinking about the time you said that weird thing and Shirley looked at you funny.

We’re all human, and we all do silly, dumb stuff. Regretting anything is never time well spent because you can’t change what happened.

You need to find within yourself the capacity to quickly move on from your stumbles and your perceived losses.

Letting go is a muscle, and you get better with practice.

Whining like a teenager.

Whining is to resist reality, and resistance is physical stress.

When we decide to whine about something we don’t like, we’re choosing to weaken ourselves physically.

Do this day after day after day, and guess what?…

A high consumption to creation ratio.

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Responses (60)

What are your thoughts?

Live longer by cutting out salads.

Sources? 😅

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Most of these resonate but I’ll admit you lost me a bit at the part on not eating leaves! Are you saying we shouldn’t eat plants at all, or just salad? Or does this only apply to vegan diets? Plants contain lots of vital nutrients, and when you…

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We’re also learning that plants contain a range of anti-nutrients that screw with your gut and restrict absorption of the minerals you think you’re getting chomping on kale.

What?! This has to be something of a reverse psychology.
If not- makes me want to doubt everything else you’ve written.
Please get in touch with me - here on medium, LinkedIn or Facebook to chat (or argue) in detail about this gross misinformation and misconception you have.

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