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  The Gita-Avengers

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  The Battlefield in Our Hearts

  The other day I went to see the new Avengers: Endgame movie. Of course, I’m a fan of (super)hero stories and I also love flipping my brain off as I enjoy a well-produced movie with a well-told story. In fact1: As we’ve discussed, movies are my preferred way to get a nice little dose of recovery-mode ...

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  Aristotle’s “Happiness”

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  Isn’t Quite What You Think

  Aristotle was born in Greece on the border of Macedonia in 384 BC. His father was the court physician to the Macedonian king. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens where he studied with Plato in his Academy for TWENTY years until Plato’s death. Shortly thereafter, he was summoned to Macedonia by t...

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  Stoic Spas

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  Are More Like Hospitals (Check Yourself In Yet?)

  In our last +1, we talked about how to give advice Seneca-style. Recall that he didn’t do it from a soapbox. He did with the humility of a friend in the hospital bed next to you. (Pop quiz: You practice that approach yesterday in any potential advice-giving?) Continuing our Stoics-in-a-hospital theme, ...

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  Our Minds Must Relax

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  Seneca on How to Avoid Mental Dullness and Lethargy

  In our last +1, we talked about the Cal Newport-inspired “Shut-down complete!” First, quick check in: You win that game? 😃 Get this: Seneca was talking about the same thing 2,000 years ago. As you may know, Seneca was born around the time Jesus was born. He was one of history’s leading Stoic phi...

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  Carpe Diem

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  Seize the Day! (Or Is It “Pluck the Day”?!)

  Carpe Diem!! … Seize the day!! I don’t know about you, but I get fired up just saying that. (Hah.) Today we’ll have fun looking at the ancient Latin roots of the phrase and see how we can apply that wisdom to Optimizing our lives. So… The Latin phrase carpe diem comes to us via Horace’s Odes wr...

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  Today's To-Be List

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  Goes Nicely with Your To-Do List

  In our last +1, we talked about living your eulogy virtues TODAY. We don’t want to think of our eulogy virtues as some abstract notion of the ideal you, but as a moment to moment compass that points you in the direction of the most exemplary, noble version of yourself. Here’s one way to keep your eul...

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  The Ultimate Jihad

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  Winning the Battle with Ourselves

  Continuing our theme of Sufi wisdom via the great 13th century Muslim poet Rumi, let’s talk about the ultimate jihad. First, we need to understand what the word “jihad” actually means. The root of jihad means “to strive” or “to exert oneself” and has two manifestations: one internal and one...

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  How to Get Super Shiny

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  Hint: Don’t Get Irritated by Every Rub

  In our last +1, we had fun applying Rumi’s wisdom that God turns us from one feeling to another so we have two wings to fly and not one. Today, we’ll look at another one of my favorite gems from Rumi. He tells us: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” Think about that. If...

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  Wings and Lottery Balls

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  How to Bounce Your Way to Winning the Game of Life

  Rumi tells us that God turns us from one feeling to another so that we have two wings to fly and not one. I love to keep that in mind when I find myself kinda going back and forth on a decision. Two wings!! I also like to think of lottery balls. (Hah!) You know how sometimes you can feel like a ping pong...

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  Follow Your Bliss

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  Jump into Enlightenment

  The great mythologist Joseph Campbell told us to follow our bliss. Why? And… How’d he come up with that? Well, among many other things, Joseph Campbell was a Sanskrit scholar. He tells us that the ancient wisdom texts known as the Upanishads tell us that there are three jumping off points into enligh...

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  Warriors vs. Librarians

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  Let’s Not Just Catalogue these +1s, Let’s LIVE Them

  Our last +1 was about a modern-day warrior, Georges St-Pierre. Let’s talk about old-school philosophical warriors for a moment. In his great book about the philosophical roots of modern cognitive behavioral therapy, Donald Robertson tells us that the ancient philosophers weren’t interested in merely ...

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  Little by Little

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  The Buddha on How to Optimize

  One of my favorite gems from the Buddha is this wisdom: “Little by little one becomes evil, as a water pot is filled with water. Little by little one becomes good, as a water pot is filled with water.” The optimal way to Optimize? Drop by drop by drop. +1. +1. +1. Back in the day, I used to get all f...

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  Deo Volente + Thy Will Be Done

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  Wisdom from Apollo, the Patron God of Philosophy

  Deo volente. It’s Latin for “God willing.” The ancient Stoics told us that it’s important to have clear goals but we need to qualify those goals with something along the lines of “if fate will have it.” “I will travel by ship to Athens. If fate will have it.” “I will do x, y, or z. If f...

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  The #1 Key to Happiness + Flourishing

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  Hint: Become BFFs with your Inner Soul

  Imagine your ideal self. Smiling and waving at you. See ‘em?! (Seriously. Take a deep breath/10 seconds and bring that epically awesome you to life in your mind.) Here’s the deal: That ideal version of you is pretty much watching you all day every day. The Stoic philosophers called this “the Other....

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