The Surprising Reason You're Not Actually Behind In Life

Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. Today, we're doing an episode that I need right now, so I am making it in hopes that it'll help you too. This is something that I've grappled with a lot for the last year or two, the idea that I am behind in life. And because I see everything through that journalist lens after all of these years, I put on my research hat to explore, why do I feel this way? Why do so many of the most successful people that I know feel this way? What is happening in our psychology and our perceptions and what is all of that being influenced by? I really didn't want to create like a candy mindset episode where I just tell you and myself that we're not behind in life for 30 minutes and then it feels really good in the moment when you're listening or when I'm talking. But then as soon as that hit wears off, we are all right back to where we started. I wanted real science. I wanted real meaty change. So that is what I created this episode to do. I want to start by just saying again, I often feel like I'm behind in life. When I say that to people, they're like, but Liz, you're married. You've published all of these books. You have this successful podcast. And I am so, so grateful for all of that. But also, I am literally living out of a suitcase. I don't have a house. I cannot figure out how to have a baby timeline-wise in a way that fits in with my career. My podcast is successful. My books are successful. But I can point to people who are way more successful, people who are reaching an audience that I wish I could reach. And I say this because I think it's important for all of us to internalize that the way that our life looks to us is so different from the way that it is seen from the outside. We tend to dismiss our own accomplishments. We tend to build up other people's successes. And I think starting with that perspective is really important. I also want to say that I thought that success and wealth would be the antidotes to me feeling behind in life because that's what society essentially drills into our head from the day that we're born, especially in the U.S. And this is not a big double-blind study, but I haven't felt less behind as I have gained more money or success. And I know people who are way richer and way more successful than me, people who are brand name celebrities, people who are literally billionaires, and many, many of them still have this feeling of being behind. There's a phenomenon where our brain tends to compare upward and aspire upward. So billionaires want to be the richest person in the world. The celebrities want to be this like iconic person that you'll remember decades and decades after they die, like a Marilyn Monroe. So we're always comparing upward to the people above us, but we are also wired for scarcity because our brains want to protect us. I watched the Paris Hilton documentary during the pandemic and I still think about this part where Paris is talking to her sister and Paris says, I will not stop until I make a billion dollars and then I think I can relax. And Nikki, her sister is like, but you're exhausted. You are so burnt out and you have tens of millions of dollars. You do not need to keep going. And Paris is basically like, no, I am scared I'm going to lose it all. If I had a billion dollars, I would feel safe. And it was this really standout moment of the movie for me because here is this woman that has so much money, so much fame, really the ability to do whatever she wants in her life. And she doesn't feel like it's enough to feel safe. And of course, if she gets a billion dollars, she still won't feel like it's enough to feel safe. And I have heard this from so many incredibly wealthy people. First of all, many of these people were driven to become incredibly wealthy in the first place because they did not feel safe. Not all wealthy people, there's obviously privilege and luck and different reasons that drive different people to different things, but a lot of wealthy people, whether they know it consciously or not, are motivated by this. And they're trying to make all of this money and thinking then they'll feel safe, then they'll feel loved. But the finish line for that keeps moving further and further out. And they think if they get to that new finish line, that will finally be the answer. But of course, it's not because the finish line is a lie. It was never real. And we're not going to talk about billionaires and celebrities for this entire episode. But I feel like looking at these extreme examples is helpful because it demonstrates so clearly how little the way we feel is about the thing that we think we want. If we do not feel like enough without the partner or the kid or the house or the money, having those things will not make us feel like enough. Instead, that feeling of I need this to be enough will jump to something else. The core, the root thing that we need to tackle is the I'm not enoughness, but we focus on getting the things. We focus on the fake finish lines. I love the quote from Arthur C. Brooks. He is a happiness researcher at Harvard, and he says humans are meant for progress, not arrival. Scientists call it the arrival fallacy, and it's basically the idea that we think when we get somewhere, that will be the key to our happiness. And universally, the research shows that this is just not true. In fact, the opposite is true, where often after you get that thing, you are less happy because you no longer have the hope that that thing will make you happy or change your life. It literally has a name. People call it gold medal syndrome because Olympic athletes who get gold medals often go through a period of depression and hopelessness after. It also happens to Oscar-winning actors, to people after their wedding, the post-wedding blues, to founders after selling their company. I was just reading about the founder of Loom who wrote an entire Substack post about how lost and sad he felt after selling Loom for $975 million, which I feel like is a scenario that many of us dream about. I'm going to read it to you because I found it fascinating. Okay, he wrote, everything feels like a side quest, but not in an inspiring way. I don't have the same base desires driving me to make money or gain status. Honestly, I'm not the most optimistic about life. And then he says, I've only started to realize that when Loom was in its early innings, I felt very secure with my position in life, and lots of this stemmed from the extreme gratitude for the journey I was on. I was happy with everything as it was. The growth trajectory of the company was more than I could ever dream for. I was happy. I felt secure. It could all turn to shit the next day, and that would be okay. Humans are meant for progress, not arrival. In fact, not only are we not meant for arrival, we are really bad at it. It actively makes us feel awful to arrive, which is something I try to tell myself when I'm feeling behind in life, when I'm rushing to check off box after box. When I arrive, when I get there, there's a good chance that I will feel worse than I do right now. And the only antidote to that is to enjoy the journey. So how the hell do we do that? How do we enjoy the journey? There are a few things that I found really pragmatically helpful for enjoying the journey, for not feeling behind in life. First of all, even that word behind, it implies comparison. It implies an end destination. And I always think about the idea that if we are racing, if we are trying to get to the next thing and the next thing and the next thing, what is at the end of that? It's death. The end of the race is death. The thing that we are rushing toward is death. I was listening to an interview with Michelle Obama recently that made me cry. She was talking about how when her mom was dying, she pulled Michelle over and she said, wow, this went fast. And Michelle was like, what are you talking about? And her mom was like, life, life went fast. It goes so fast. And when we are racing through it, when we are looking for the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. We're taking this thing that is already so short, so crazily short, and we're making it go by even faster. By looking at the future in that way, we are actually training our brain to seek out that type of reward, which makes that reward inherently less enjoyable. This is kind of confuddled so stick with me here But if you are training your brain to be scanning for the next thing to work toward to feel happy the second that you hit that thing your brain will be scanning for the next thing to work toward to be happy because you have trained it to do that. When I catch myself scanning for the next thing, I actively stop. Sometimes I even say stop out loud. So I'll just like literally be sitting there by myself in a room and I'll be like, stop. It's a weird little psychology trick, but it's actually really effective. And then after I say stop, either in my head or out loud, I try to notice what I am enjoying about the present moment. That's more Arthur C. Brooks research. Happiness comes down to three things, enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning. So those are the three things that you can look for. Is there something that you are enjoying about this moment of the journey? Is there something that you are deriving satisfaction from? Or maybe there's something meaningful about it, even if it is in no way enjoyable in the moment. One of my favorite bits of psychology research that I never hear people talk about is that there's another key aspect of living a good life, that beyond happiness and meaning, there's something called psychological richness that is an incredibly important element of a life well-lived. Basically, having perspective-changing experiences with novelty and complexity are hugely contributive to our wellbeing. What I love about this research is that it completely reframes nonlinear paths and more difficult experiences as not only not being bad or harmful, but actually being a key component of a well-lived life. That career pivot, that's valuable perspective that's contributing to your psychologically rich life. That divorce, that's complexity. That is heartbreak. That is novelty. Those are all key factors of a life well-lived. Your path deviating from whatever the norm is, that is you adding to your wellbeing. It is another vote for taking the risk, for taking the detour, for leaping in with your heart open, even if it means that it might break later. These are not bumps in the road to be avoided. These are key components of the journey. Psychological richness, man. Whenever anything bad happens to me, I now try to zoom out a bit And I think this is adding psychological richness to my life. This is part of my well-lived life. Did you know that more than two-thirds of protein powders tested have lead levels above California's Prop 65 safety limits? And in some cases, they have more than 10 times over. And a broader study found that nearly half of top-selling U.S. protein powders exceeded those safety limits with more than 20% clocking in at twice the allowed levels. 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The first is reminding myself that I only getting a teeny tiny sliver of somebody else life And I comparing that to my entire life Even our best friends we just getting a teeny tiny little sliver I've talked about on the pod before how we tend not to be truly vulnerable with our friends because we have created this culture where we're afraid of being perceived or judged. And that makes this comparison problem even worse because most of us, even if we do not mean to, are showing a shinier version of our lives to our friends and an even shinier version of our lives on social media. So we're seeing this shiny, curated version of a life and we're comparing that to a whole complicated real life that we are actually living. And to that point, if I am comparing myself to somebody else, I ask myself if I would trade their entire life for my entire life. So that means for me, no Zach, no podcast, no sister. And I have to not only take the parts of their life that are the sliver that I see, the shiny part that I see, but also I have to take the more challenging parts. And 99% of the time when I ask myself that, when I ask myself, would I trade every single thing in my life for every single thing in their life? The answer is no. The third thing that helps is just to spend less time on social media and more time curating what I do see when I am on social media. I will not dwell on this because we all know it, but I will say that the times in my life that I feel the most behind are when I am spending the most time scrolling. Because think about what you post on social media. I am scrolling and I'm just seeing my friends buy houses and have babies and I am so happy for their wins, but I also compare them to my own. And again, I'm just seeing that teeny tiny sliver. And then the fourth thing that I find really helpful is using that comparison and honestly using feeling behind in general as information, as a way of pointing to the things that I want in my life. Be like a detective. What do the things that make you jealous say about your goals and your values? What are the things that make you feel behind say about what you want from your life? And then here is the harder part. Be brutally honest with yourself about if the way that you are living your life on a day-to-day basis is actually in line with those values and those goals and those desires. There are ways that the world gets in our way, and then there are ways that we get in our own way. Look for the latter and see if you can't use the fact that you feel behind as motivation to actually make the change that future you will thank you for. The other primary reason that I think many of us feel behind in life is because we are told basically from birth what life should look like. It has these beats like, ba-da, ba-da, ba-da, go to college, get a job, get engaged, get married, have a kid. we are all living by these scripts that weren't written by us and that I think many of us aren't even aware of. To try to bring that sense of awareness into my life, I look for the word should in my life all of the time. I ask myself why all of the time? Why do I want to own a house? Why do I want to have a kid? Which of course I did a whole podcast series about, so you very much witnessed that wide journey. In fact, the very idea of being behind in life is contingent on shoulds because otherwise, why would anyone be ahead? Why would anyone be behind? With no shoulds, we would all be exactly where we are supposed to be because the only life that we are living is our own. I know from a lot of personal experience that the shoulds can be very tricky to get rid of, so I'm not going to leave you with like a wishy-washy, bring awareness to it, change your mindset shtick. Awareness helps, but the thing that I have found helps the most with the shoulds is actively looking for role models living all different types of lives. Our brain likes what it's seen before because our brain is designed to avoid risk. If we have seen someone else make a choice, that choice feels safer. This happens fully at a subconscious level. Our brain is just trying to protect us, but it does that by subtly encouraging us to choose more well-trod paths. If we see somebody ahead on the path, we think, ah, okay, I can go that way. It is safe to go that way. It is okay to go that way. I know I tend to be fairly anti-social media. I feel like I talk about using social media less than every single episode, but this is actually one of my all-time favorite uses of social media. Look for people living different lives than you. Look for people who sold their house to travel the world. Look for people living in a van. Look for people who never got married and they're living with their best friends instead. Look for people who had babies and look for people who didn't and look for people who are stay-at-home parenting and look for people who are working full-time. Look for people who had a big old wedding and people who decided that marriage wasn't that important to them. There are so many people living so many lives out there. Seek them out and use them to teach your brain how to be free of the single narrative that it has been fed for your entire life. The happiest, happiest people that I know are living lives free of shoulds. They're questioning their choices and they're living intentionally. They are not doing things because their parents did it or their best friend did it or they saw it in a movie once. You have one life. This is it. I promise, I promise that you will regret living it the way someone else wants you to. As a matter of fact, the number one regret that people have at the end of their lives is, I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. Basically, I wish I hadn't let the shoulds control me. I wish I had lived my own life, my own dreams. And if you go down the list of the things that people regret the most at the end of their lives, the other regrets people have are, I wish I hadn't worked so hard. I wish I had the courage to express my feelings. I wish I'd stayed in touch with my friends and I wish I had let myself be happier. Do you notice what's missing? People are not regretting not having gotten a raise by a certain age or having gotten engaged by a certain age. Their regrets actually, if you zoom out, are much more about enjoying the journey because like Michelle Obama's mom said, It goes far, far quicker than we think it will. I just had a close friend who is my age get a cancer diagnosis, and that was right after my father-in-law died. It has been a year full of loss. It's been a year full of grief. And it just makes it so abundantly clear what matters in this life. We have one journey on this planet, and we have no real idea how long it will last. It's been such a hard year emotionally, but one of the biggest silver linings is how clear it makes it that every single day that we get to be here is an extraordinary gift, that every single day that we get to belly laugh with our friends or snuggle our pet or eat a delicious piece of chocolate is an incredible gift. I did a podcast with Dr. Docker Keltner. He is my old UC Berkeley professor, and the podcast was all about awe, which he talked about being one of the best things for our happiness and our health. Like it actually has real benefits for our inflammation levels and our immune system, like our physical health, but also our happiness. And he talks about how, yes, we can find awe in amazing art and contemplating galaxies that are really far away. But one of my favorite tips that he shared in that episode is that the best way to find awe is just to look at something a little bit longer. Any normal old thing, a flower on your daily walk, the cup of tea in your hand, the phone that you're listening to this episode on, look at it a little bit longer and more than likely you'll begin to feel awe. Because there is awe all around us. Our lives, the moments of our days are filled with awe. The real secret to true and lasting happiness isn't hunting down extraordinary milestones. It's not trying to get to the next thing quicker. It's realizing that your life is filled with extraordinary moments every single day. I hope this was helpful. I want to reiterate that this is something that I very much deal with too. And I made this episode as much for myself as I did for you guys. and I hope that we can all help each other truly embrace these concepts and change the way that we feel about our lives I want you to know that you are not alone You are so not alone If there is anybody that you know that feels behind in life that you think would benefit from everything that we talked about in this episode, please do send them a link to the episode. It is an amazing way to support your friends and also to support this show. We have grown so much this year and it's all because of you guys sharing episodes and writing reviews on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and following us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and on YouTube. And it's really just so appreciated. I can't express my gratitude for that enough for this community and to get to have these conversations with you. It's my dream in life and you guys make it possible. You can find our newsletter, the takeaway at lizmoody.substack.com. 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So we are doing a deep dive into how to improve our mitochondrial health for longer lifespans, more energy, healthier skin and hair, and more. I'm joined by Dr. Anurag Singh, an MD with a PhD in immunology. He has been studying longevity for the last 20 years, and he currently serves as the chief medical officer at Timeline. What is urolithin A? So urolithin A is a postbiotic molecule. It's made by the gut microbiome when you're eating right. For example, if you're eating a bowl of berries, if you're eating your nuts, sort of the Mediterranean diet is giving you exposure. And then you need to have good gut microbiome to make these molecules. And over time, we see a lot of folks cannot make this molecule. Urolitin A can rewire the health of these mitochondria, take the damaged ones out and replace them with healthier mitochondria to give you more energy. With urolithin A, we see in our clinical trials that you can repair about 40% of these damaged mitochondria through a process called mitophagy. So urolithin A can function as a postbiotic? Yeah, so the urolithin A is a postbiotic. We all have heard about probiotics, for example. These are friendly gut bacteria that are beneficial. These probiotics are really generating postbiotics, which are beneficial to us. And a lot of new research is coming out of the health benefits. And urolitin A obviously is one of the top ones that hits mitochondria and cellular health. Yeah, it's so interesting because I think we've sort of culturally gotten on board with prebiotics. We've gotten on board with probiotics. And I think that postbiotics are going to be the next big part of the conversation. Absolutely. I couldn't agree 200% more. The gut microbiome is a polypharmacy waiting to be mined to discover amazing molecules such as urolitin A that have immense health benefits on us. It's so crazy how little we know about the gut microbiome. So like, I think there's a natural suspicion people have when you're like, oh, there's this thing and it has all of these benefits, but we just discovered it. But is that because we are just getting into the very surface of our microbiome? It is. We're just starting to scratch the surface. 10 years back, sequencing the gut microbiome was very expensive. So not a lot of clinicians were recommending. And now it's very affordable. So there's more adoption into mainstream medicine. The other is we know how the different gut microbiome changes during a human lifespan. So you're basically born what your mother was eating, and then you kind of evolve your microbiome that changes over your life. I also read that we can't perhaps, even if we eat the right foods, we can't synthesize the urolithin A if our microbiome is not in a certain state. Is that why you're calling out like you need a lot of these ferments in your diet to create that microbial environment to synthesize it? You got it. If I give 100 people a glass of pure pomegranate juice or a bowl of berries and nuts, only about 30% are going to make it. Of those 30%, perhaps only in the top 10, 20% will have enough levels to have a health benefit, right? And so you really require sort of this direct supplementation approach, much like with omega-3 or vitamin C and other key nutrients come from our diet. Okay. I just want to make sure I'm getting this right. So the idea is essentially that many of us might feel low energy or we might be aging quickly than we would want to on a cellular level. We might have mood issues, things like that, because our microbiomes have been impacted in this negative way where we cannot synthesize the urolithin A, repair those mitochondria, support those mitochondria. And then that's why we're having these downstream effects on our health. Absolutely. And that's why urolithin A is such a big discovery in the field of not just longevity, but cellular health. Are we 100% confident that even if our microbiome isn't perfect, were still able to absorb the urolithin A and experience all the mitochondrial benefits? Absolutely. So the trials we ran at the start, we actually gave increasing doses of urolithin A. And we saw with each increasing doses more and more getting absorbed in the bloodstream. And then we found the sweet spot, the dose that was having these amazing effects on mitochondria and then the effects on whole body as well. Don't let another year go by feeling less than your best. If you're looking to improve your VO2 max or feel more energetic every single day, I have a special offer right now only to try Timeline for yourself. Go to timeline.com slash Liz. That is timeline.com slash Liz to claim my special offer. 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