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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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  Growing Teeth

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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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  Meditation & Peak Performance

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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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  Warren Buffett on Goal Setting

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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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  Combination Locks

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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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