UP, Hilary Tindle
UP, Hilary Tindle
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UP
How Positive Outlook Can Transform Our Health and Aging

Author: Hilary Tindle

Narrator: Hilary Tindle

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 06/11/2013


Synopsis

Why looking up matters

A positive attitude is important, but until now we didn’t know how important. In Up, a practicing physician and NIH-funded researcher draws on her research and experience to show that our outlook on life— our unique patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves, others, and the world—may be the key to how well and how fast we age.

From wrinkles to cognitive decline, our outlook affects our health at every level. Using the framework of outlook GPS, Up illustrates how we can gauge our current attitude latitude and move to healthier ground. Tindle brings a fresh eye to attitudinal traits such as optimism, noting that it has many faces, including the face of her own struggling optimism. Using the 7 Steps of Attitudinal Change that she applies to her own patients, Tindle offers us a path toward healthy aging.

Prescriptive and accessible, Up puts forward a paradigm shift in how we age and treat disease, giving even the most struggling optimists a chance for hope.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maureen on January 11, 2022

My first book of 2022 and a fine read to begin the new year with. This book explores the scientific research conducted to investigate how optimistic and pessimistic outlooks on life can affect overall health and wellbeing, with particular emphasis on aging well. It gives the benefits of a positive o......more

Goodreads review by Marlee on December 31, 2018

This was a great book with practical advice, wonderful information, and inspiring stories. It was more focused on optimism and pessimism along with medical suggestions such as taking medication. Obviously, being written by a doctor this makes sense. However, I would have preferred the discussion of......more

Goodreads review by Erick P on July 16, 2018

Things I learned: 1. Pessimism creates the stress to wear out telomereres that help the cell replication. Damage that, aging accelerates. 2. Pessimism/Optimism essentially culminates in self fulfilling actions. Either for good or bad - affecting the direction of self care. 3. Pessimism and Optimism are......more

Goodreads review by Jordan on September 12, 2018

I would give it five stars but I after finishing the book I can't even recall the suggestions to be more positive. I like the stories, I just felt like it jumped around a bit. I do firmly believe, even before reading this book, that a positive attitude improves your health. Overdrive......more

Goodreads review by Josiah on February 12, 2025

Some great information- but could’ve been a Blog post or half as long. The optimist in me says it’s still a worthwhile read!......more