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10 Successful Men Discuss Their Challenges With Depression
By Jatinder Singh, Associate Partner & Mentorship Coach, Lighthouse International
It's estimated that 1 in 8 men in the UK suffer from some sort of mental health disorder and three out of four suicides are committed by men. Thankfully this issue is gaining greater and greater prominence with Prince Harry recently bringing together top sporting legends to discuss a critical issue affecting many people. Indeed, suicide is the biggest cause of death for men under 35 in the UK.
We can often think successful people don't suffer from these issues, however, this is a myth. Hear the legends below discuss their own challenges with mental health and depression:
1. Robert Pattison: The movie star was asked what advice he would give aspiring actors. He replied:
"My advice would probably be: take good care of your mental health. If you get famous as quickly as I did, your personal growth stops suddenly."
2. Ray Davies: The musician from the Kinks said of his experiences,
"I’d just come offstage and sunk a bottle of downers because I wanted to kill myself. Then I changed my mind. I was dressed as a dandy, it might have looked like a clown to everyone else. But even clowns can have bad days."
3. Robbie Williams: At the height of his fame in 2003, the singer told Radio 1 when being interviewed,
"People go 'what have you got to be depressed about?' And they're right, I haven't...Now I'm on these pills. Depression isn't about 'woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick."
4. Rory Bremner: The comedian said,
"I have highs and lows. I have great big moments of adrenaline, but that can be followed by depression. It's a black dog, but I've taken it to dog-training classes. It always appears at unexpected moments, but if you have had a bit of training, you know how to make it sit down or walk bes Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition, an organization that helps ambitious people work on the most important global problems. His books Utopia for Realists and Humankind have been translated into 46 languages and have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. He lives in New York City.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "'Find something worth doing' seems like sage advice for us all--and on this beleaguered planet, as this book makes clear, that means digging into the very biggest problems."--Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and Third Act, author of The End of Nature Session Chairs: Nikolai Maximenko, University of Hawaii; Delwyn Moller, Remote Sensing Solutions; Bertrand Chapron, IFREMER; Paolo Corradi, ESTEC; Victor Martinez Vicente, Plymouth Marine Laboratory This session is catered to engineers, scientists and responders who will overview remote technologies available for surveillance of marine debris and factors, controlling its drift, and present existing products, results of their applications and ideas for future missions. Traditional methods based on counting marine debris items provide fragmentary information not sufficient to help close regional and global balances of the plastic pollution. Only remote sensing, covering great areas, can fill gaps in sparse in situ point observations. Complex composition of debris, including broad ranges of sizes, shapes, and chemical composition, makes it not possible to observe all types with any single sensor. This session invites presentations demonstrating feasibility or publishing new ideas of remote sensing technologies that can help identify, quantify, and/or track various types of plastic pollution or other types of marine debris on the ocean surface or on the shoreline. Understanding the drift of marine debris in the ocean requires good knowledge of the dynamics of the ocean-atmosphere surface circulation and is important for a growing list of operational activities, such as search and rescue and response to oil spills. Presently, even large objects can’t be followed by the satellite observing system. Examples include missing flight MH370 and millions of tons of debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan and 2004 tsunami in Indonesia, whose pathways and fate are not known or known very vaguely. Applications, derived from satellite measurements of oceanic and atmospheric variables, calibrated with the data of marine debris and used to advance the understanding of marine debris drift, are also welcome at our session. Abstracts: Hypers Models estimate up to 3 million metric tons of river plastic waste flowing into the world’s ocean every year. All ocean-bound rivers endure tidal impact to some degree, but there is a lack of data on the resulting marine emission effects. To address this gap, we analyzed the trajectories of grapefruit-sized floating GPS drifters (n = 63) in the Chao Phraya estuary in Bangkok, Thailand, in the three seasons of 2022–2023. We observe considerable bi-directional drifter oscillation over dozens of kilometers in all seasons with particles transitioning in and out of urban canals. The only substantial net downstream transport towards the ocean occurred in the rainy season (May–Oct). Only one drifter reached the sea. We further show that drifters are more likely to travel through the center and outside portion of river bends. Besides advancing models this study provides spatiotemporal insights for water pollution mitigation and cleanup policies. Increasing ocean plastic pollution is irreversibly harming ecosystems and human economic activities. We partner with a nonprofit organization and use optimization to help clean up oceans from plastic faster. Specifically, we optimize the route of their plastic collection system in the ocean to maximize the quantity of plastic collected over time. We formulate the problem as a longest path problem in a well-structured graph. However, because collection directly impacts future plastic density, the corresponding edge lengths are nonlinear polynomials. After analyzing the structural properties of the edge lengths, we propose a search-and-bound method, which leverages a relaxation of the problem solvable via dynamic programming and clustering, to efficiently find high-quality solutions (within 6% optimal in practice) and develop a tailored branch-and-bound strategy to solve it to provable optimality. On one year of ocean data, our optimization-based routing approach increases the quantity of plastic collect About the Author
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"A life-changing book. It will lead you to re-evaluate your life--and radically raise your game. As soon as you finish it, you will want to buy it for everyone you love."--Johann Hari, author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus
"Rutger Bregman challenges the reader to use their lives to improve the world. A bracing but ultimately uplifting wake-up call for a culture increasingly drowning in distraction and consumption!"--Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work
"Rutger Bregman's latest work isn't merely a book; it's a call to action for humanity to re-evaluate our paradigms of success and impact in the world. It serves as a stark wake-up call, urging us to truly utilize our talents to create the future we all wish to live in."--Trevor Noah
"A terrific read. There are so many things in here that made me think, 'Yes, exactly!' With Moral Ambition, Rutger Bregman has pulled off something remarkable: a lively and entertaining read that is full of important wisdom about some of life's most important questions. I hope everyone who wants to make the world a better place will read it. Even if all they take away is the lessons of the chapter on seeing winning as our moral duty, that would already greatly improve their prospects of doing good."--Peter Abstract
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