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The Puzzle of Life
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And How to Build It

Emerson and I recently got into puzzles. We started with a 100-piece, little-kids’ puzzle of The World. 🌎 Then we went to a little-older-kids’ 100-piece puzzle featuring… Dinosaurs. 🦖 From there we rocked a 200-piece puzzle featuring Blackbeard’s Battle. (As you migh...

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“It’s Not Growing!” “Oh… There It Is!”

Not too long ago, Emerson lost his first tooth. As any parent of a missing-tooth child knows, it’s pretty epically cute and awesome. The tooth fairy might have visited and we celebrated the wonderful gap in his mouth. 😁 Fast forward a week or two. Emerson wonders why h...

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Do You Think You Can?
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Well… If You Have the Guts…

In our last +1, we hung out with Mister Rogers and his barrelful of songs. That story he shared about meeting a songwriter he admired reminds me of some similar wisdom Joseph Campbell once gave. In

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A Barrelful of Songs
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Is Your Barrel Overflowing with Goodness?

In The World According to Mister Rogers, our beloved neighbor Fred tells us a story about a time when he was in college and went to New York to meet with a songwriter he admired. He shared a few of the songs he’d written. He hoped that would lead to an introduction to someone who wou...

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The Plateau of Latent Potential
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An Important Concept to Understand

Continuing our series on the power of Atomic Habits, let’s look at why we often parachute off the Optimizing Jet (powered by Atomic-Habit fuel) right before things start gettin...

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The 1-Hour (Deep) Workday
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4 Hours Too Much? OK. Let’s Do 1!!

We’ve been talking a fair amount about the idea that some of history’s greatest creators didn’t work all that much. To be clear, they worked hard and (very importantly!) CONSISTENTLY, but the fact is that it’s really hard to put in any more than 4 to 6 hours of really high-quality wor...

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10,000 Micro-Hero’s Journeys
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The Phone Is Ringing All Day Every Day

In our last +1, we talked about you and Jay-Z in the studio of life. 10,000 potential micro-hero’s journeys. Every single day. Did you show up and answer the call yesterday? Today, I want to be super clear: That studio? It has no walls. EVERY SINGLE MOMENT life is inviting you t...

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You and Jay-Z in the Studio of Life
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Making Epic Music via 10,000 Daily Micro-Hero’s Journeys

Steven Pressfield is one of the world’s masters of the creative process—which is why we keep on coming back to him and his wisdom. Today we’re going to talk about his take on

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How to Create a World-Class Mind
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Hint: Train It for 10,000+ Hours

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that Yuval Noah Harari doesn’t have a smartphone. He’s basically written an ...

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Confucius on the Long Game
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Play It with Intensity

In our last +1, we spent time trying to keep up with Confucius and his Optimizing intensity. Today we’re going to focus on the time horizon on which we need to sustain that level of intensity if we want to actualize. Pop quiz: How long does it take to master this stuff if you&...

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Three Steps to Clarity

In Born for This, Chris Guillebeau tells us that, according to legend, Warren Buffet once gave a struggling friend a three steps process for setting goals. Here’s the quick look. 1. Start b...

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Consistency over Intensity
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The Secret Sauce to Awesome Sauce

After selling my first business over fifteen years ago, I had enough money to spend some time figuring out what I wanted to do when I grew up. I read a lot, traveled a bit and decided that, if I could get paid to do what I loved to do, I’d study how to optimize my life, strive to embody those...

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Ideas that Open the Doors to Your Infinite Potential

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that we have a baby on the loose in the Johnson house. We also talked about how all those tiny incremental, almost-imperceptible gains can add up to making the impossible easy. Here’s another metaphor for that process.

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You + Michelangelo + Your Potential
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What’s in the Way of You Being Your Best?

Legend has it that when Michelangelo stepped up to a block of marble, he could see the finished statue in his mind’s eye. His job was simple: Get rid of what was in the way. That’s a pretty powerful image. Let’s apply it to our lives. Step back from your current lif...

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The Science of Being Awesome
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A Quick Look at Purposeful + Deliberate Practice

In our last +1 we talked about Anders Ericsson and his research on the science of greatness. The most exciting discovery? The fact that we ALL have the gift of greatness: Adaptability. We can all incrementally Optimize our minds and bodies to perform in exceptional ways. The b...

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Outliers

The Story of Success

by Malcolm Gladwell

As with all of Malcolm Gladwell’s books, this is a fascinating read—exploring the underpinnings of what *really* makes great people great. In short: It’s more complicated than we think and it’s *definitely* not simply innate talent. Culture and hard work and other often wacky variables play a pivotal role. Big Ideas we explore: The 10,000 Hour Rule, no naturals + no grinders, The Beatles (and their 1,200!! shows before they hit it big), Bill Gates sneaking out of bed in high school and the three keys to meaning.

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Bounce

Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

by Matthew Syed

What do you think about excellence? Do you think it’s primarily driven by natural, inborn talent? Or, do you think that it’s primarily driven by effort? Matthew Syed tells us that’s a very important decision that has a broad impact on how we show up and shows us how to Bounce into our highest potential. Big Ideas we explore include: the iceberg illusion, 1 million balls, doublethink and the importance of purposeful practice + the growth mindset.

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The Rise of Superman

Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

by Steven Kotler

The Rise of Superman. What an awesome title and vision. Steven Kotler is one of the world’s leading authorities on the science of flow. He created the Flow Genome Project that is all about “decoding the peak performance state of flow.” (<—Awesome.) In this book we take a peak at how we can get our greatness on. Big Ideas include a quick look at flow and how to hack it, achieving mastery sans misery, using fear as a compass and how to do the impossible.

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The Little Book of Talent

52 Tips for Improving Your Skills

by Daniel Coyle

In The Talent Code, Dan Coyle introduced us to the power of myelin and its role in creating world-class performance. In The Little Book of Talent, he shares 52 uber-practical tips on how to improve our skills. Big Ideas we explore include how to actually deliberately practice (hint: find your sweet spot), the most important skill (hint: get good at actually practicing), playing mental movies, adopting a blue collar mind set and thinking like a gardener while acting like a carpenter.

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My Fight Your Fight

by Ronda Rousey

Ronda Rousey is a TOUGH human being. If you’re even remotely familiar with MMA/the UFC, I’m not telling you anything you didn’t already know but reading this book brings the point home even more loud and clear. If you don’t know Ronda, ESPN just voted her the best fighter on the planet. She’s an Olympic medalist in Judo and the biggest (and highest paid!) star in the mixed martial arts world. Imagine if Bruce Lee was alive today. And he was a woman. That’s Ronda Rousey. :)

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The Way of the Fight

by Georges St-Pierre

Georges St-Pierre. GSP. If you’re into mixed martial arts/the UFC, you know GSP as one of the greatest pound for pound fighters ever. Although I’m not really a big MMA guy, I’ve always admired the sheer, visceral strength + courage of fighters and elite warriors like the UFC champions + Navy SEALs/Army Rangers. In this great book we get a behind the scenes look into GSP’s greatness. Big Ideas include Areté, Sacrifices vs. Decisions, being courageous (hint: it’s NOT about being fearless), crazy dreams + long journeys, and dedication.

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The Hoops Whisperer

On the Court and Inside the Heads of Basketball's Best Players

by Idan Ravin

Who do LeBron James, Chris Paul, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Dwight Howard, James Harden and a ton of other top basketball players go to to get better? Idan Ravin. If you’re into sports + self-development + the pursuit of being the best you can possibly be, I think you’ll *love* the book. Big Ideas include getting paid to do what you love, greatness, obstacles and exiting the cave.

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Mastery

by Robert Greene

Leonardo da Vinci. Charles Darwin. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Martha Graham. The Wright Brothers. Jane Goodall. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Edison. Zora Neale Hurston. What do they all have in common? Mastery. In this great book Robert Greene shows us the key components of their mastery and, most importantly, how WE can each attain our mastery in our own lives.

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So Good They Can't Ignore You

Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

Cal Newport decodes the pattern of finding work that inspires us and tells us, as per the sub-title, “Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love.” The title of the book comes from comedian Steve Martin’s advice to aspiring entertainers to “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

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The Talent Code

Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown.

by Daniel Coyle

Whatever you want to learn, know this: It’s ALL about the myelin. Myelin? Yep. Myelin. In this Note we’ll learn what myelin is and why it’s so cool along with some other Big Ideas—ranging from the importance of “Deep Practice,” to the importance of baby steps as the royal road to skill and the fact that greatness isn’t about not magic, it’s about hard work.

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Mindset

The New Psychology of Success

by Carol Dweck

Carol Dweck, Ph.D is a Stanford Professor and one of the world’s leading authorities on the science of motivation. She tells us that our “mindset”—how we see the world—determines a *huge* part of our overall happiness and well-being and achievement. In this Note, we’ll explore the difference between a “fixed mindset” and a “growth mindset” and some Big Ideas on why we want to learn how to live from a growth mindset. And, of course, how to do it!

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Talent is Overrated

What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

by Geoff Colvin

Colvin tells us talent is overrated. (As you may have gathered from the title. :) Where’s it at? 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, yo. That’s the bedrock on which greatness is developed. In this Note, we’ll check out The Mozart Myth (you think he was born great?! Think again!) to falling on your butt 20,000 times, and we’ll have fun seeing how we can create our own personal greatness.

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