Sufficient deep sleep, quality nutrition, social interactions, purposeful work, exercise, and pet relationships increase well-being and system buoyancy.

“You can think of this as a toolkit of things that you and everyone really should be constantly trying to access, if not optimize, on a regular basis because they raise the tide or what I would call the buoyancy of your overall system, meaning your brain and body. And that would be getting sufficient deep sleep at least 80% of the nights of your life. And ideally, the remaining 20% you're not getting deep sleep or as much of it because of positive events. Quality nutrition. Quality social interactions. ... So we have sleep, we have nutrition, we have social interactions. We have purposeful work, whether or not it's paid work or non-paid work. And, of course, there are things like exercise and maybe relationships to pets and things of that sort.”