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“[Mindfulness] is one of those mushy buzzwords that I’d always despised until I began to understand it was a really effective tool to create distance between my thoughts and myself, to wedge even a sliver of space between some stimulus and my knee-jerk response.”

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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

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