Leonard Mlodinow
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
The connection between social pain and physical pain illustrates the links between our emotions and the physiological processes of the body. Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being. In fact, social relationships are so important to humans that a lack of social connection constitutes a major risk factor for health, rivaling even the effects of cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, obesity, and lack of physical activity.
Daniel Lieberman
- Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
The benefits of regular HIIT go well beyond its effect on muscles. Among other payoffs, HIIT increases the heart's ability to pump blood efficiently by making its chambers larger and more elastic. HIIT also augments the number, size, and elasticity of arteries and increases the number of tiny capillaries that infuse muscles. HIIT further improves muscles' ability to transport glucose from the blood stream and increases the number of mitochondria within each muscle, thus supplying more energy.
Carl Vernon
- You Care Too Much: Free Yourself From Social Anxiety
If you're socially inadequate in your thirties, that's as much your fault as it is anyone else's. You can do something about it. There is little point in you playing the victim. Victims never get anywhere. Victims don't change. They're too busy blaming everything and everyone else for their shortcomings.
Haemin Sunim
- Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
There are times when someone wants to talk and you give them the cold shoulder. But the longer this goes on, the more it exacerbates the problem. And there are times when you deliberately avoid talking to someone, but they don't even notice. Ultimately you are the only one who suffers. For your own sake, start talking. The silent treatment rarely works.
