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  What Doesn’t Kill Us

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  The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth

  In our last couple +1s, we talked about the fact that there are no eudaimonic treadmills and that a eudaimonic orientation is correlated with lower levels of depression. Eudaimonism for the win! We pulled that wisdom out of Stephen Joseph’s great book What Doesn’t Kill Us. I got that book aft...

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  Antifragility & Conquering Fear

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  The Courage Quotient

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  How’s Yours?

  Robert Biswas-Diener is known as the Indiana Jones of Positive Psychology. As per his bio, “his research has taken him to such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya and Israel.” (And, very important note: “He is afraid of quicksand and snakes.” 🤠) Robert is also the son o...

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  Confidence & Conquering Fear

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  Helplessness vs. Optimism

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  Wolves, Dogs, and Us

  In our last couple +1s, we’ve been having fun spending some time with former Navy SEAL Commander and perennial wolf-tamer, Mark Divine. Most recently, we named our Courage wolf, “Daimon” and our Fear wolf, “Demon.” (As Dan Siegel and other mindfulness neuroscientists would s...

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  The Two Wolves

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  Let’s Name Them (To Tame Them)

  In our last +1, we spent some time with Mark Divine and the two wolves within each of us. As I read that story, I made a note to include it as part of our Mastery Series. In Module II: Hero-ology, we have wisdom on How to Create Antifragile Confidence, Heroic Courage, and Response-Ability. It’s basical...

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  Confidence & Conquering Fear

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  Confronting Fear

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  It’s the Destiny of a Jedi-Optimizer

  I’m the kinda guy who goes to a movie with a pen and paper ready to take notes. Well, I’m actually the kinda guy who (aside from when I’m on the Trail) pretty much ALWAYS has a pen and paper ready to take notes. 🤓 So… The other day, I’m that guy in the movie theatre watch...

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  SEALs and WIRMs

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  Witness + Interdict + Redirect + Maintain

  Not too long ago, we shared a +1 on what I called “Thought Alchemy.” It was all about “How to Change One Thought for Another.” That day I got an email from my friend (former Navy SEAL Commander and real-life superhero) Mark Divine. He forwarded me that +1 and told me that he loved the idea and te...

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  Operating at the Highest Level

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  Nature Says: Here’s Some Energy-Juice!

  In our last +1, we did our best Boss impersonation as we reinterpreted our sweaty palms and racing hearts as a sign we’re EXCITED and READY TO GO rather than as a sign that something’s wrong. When I read that passage in Marie’s book, I immediately thought of some parallel wisdom from Jon Eliot’s ...

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  Conquering Fear & Peak Performance

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  Springsteen Says: “I’m Excited!”

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  Epic Wisdom from The Boss

  A couple +1s ago, I briefly mentioned the fact that Marie Forleo is the one who introduced me to the idea of “’Friend Power.” (Thanks, Marie!) Flip open to page 105 of her surprisingly GREAT (!) book Everything Is Figureoutable and here’s what you’ll find in her chapter on “How to Deal with t...

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  Your Learning Zone

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  vs. Your Comfort and Panic Zones

  In our last +1, we did a gold-medal-winning layback Ina Bauer with Shizuka Arakawa. Then we counted the number of times she had to fall on her butt in order to achieve that ineffably elegant level of excellence. Recall: Estimate = 20,000 times!!! While discussing Shizuka’s sheer awesome, we referenced ...

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  How to Make Grit

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  Sand on Paper Applied to Your Life

  In our last +1, we talked about how to make a pearl. Recall that the first step was to introduce an “irritant.” We connected that gem origin story to another: No pressure, no diamonds. We could say: No sand, no pearl. (And/or: No irritant, no pearl!!) Today I’d like to spend a little more time talk...

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  How to Make a Pearl

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  To Go with our Diamonds

  One of our very first +1s was on a brilliant line from Steven Kotler. At the end of our interview about his great book The Rise of Superman, I asked him what one piece of wisdom he’d share with someone passionate about (and committed to!) Optimizing their lives so they could actualize their potential. ...

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  Exiting the Cast of Our Comfort Zones

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  And Letting the Surge and Power of Life’s Challenges Fuel our Optimizing

  In our last couple +1s, we met my bionic arm and its currently atrophied forearm that I’m now rehabilitating. 💪 btw: Surgeon says 9-12 months until I can do full burpees again. Awesome Optimize Coach/ Physical Therapist Julie Beck tells me we should be able to do a fist-burpee in 4 months (which put...

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  To Dare or Not to Dare

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  Whaddya Say… Shall we?

  In Greatest Year Ever – 2019, I wrapped up the class by reading some quotes that were guiding me to step up and into the next-best version of myself. I linked to the Dropbox Paper document I created to share the gems. But the potent wisdom encapsulated in those gems is so good that I think we shoul...

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  Conquering Fear

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  Instant Coward Recipe

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  Lombardi Says: Just Add Fatigue

  In Conquering Fear 101, we talked about how important it is to honor our fundamentals if we want to conquer our fear. Although the quality of our nutrition, exercise and sleep may not seem to be intimately related to the quality of our courage, IT IS!! And… As committed Optimizers, we’d be wise to ma...

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  Noli Timere

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  <- “Be Not Afraid” (= The #1 Phrase in the Bible)

  In our last +1, we spent some time hanging out with my friend Katherine Collins who is, I am quite sure, the only human on the planet who has run a multi-billion dollar mutual fund AND gone to Harvard Divinity School. (Hah!) (And wow.) (One more time: Who DOES that?) So… As we discussed, I call Katheri...

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