+1s (123)

• 

  Eudaimantra

  #1243

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  How to Extend Sovereignty Over the Mind

  Earlier today I wrapped up a few Time Blocks of (pre-inputs) Deep Work (3.9 hours to be precise!) as I finished my Note on Mark Hyman’s new book called Food Fix. (👈 Great book. More on that soon.) After printing the PDF so I could edit it and record the MP3 this afternoon, I went online to check in ...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: Strength in the Storm

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Conquering Anxiety

  antifragility conquering-anxiety equanimity Mental Toughness self-awareness Virtue Work

  #1243

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Bliss, Pain & Unicorns on Everest

  #1217

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Pearl Bites Part II

  In our last +1, we talked about my chigger-triggers (hah and yeehah! 🤠) and how to alchemize life’s inevitable “inconveniences” into Pearl Bites. Right after finishing that one I thought about Kelly McGonigal’s wisdom on climbing Everest and the inevitable cold, crazy nights an explore...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: The Upside of Stress

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Conquering Anxiety

  Actualization antifragility big-picture conquering-anxiety courage Grit soul Spirit

  #1217

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Pearl Habits

  #1210

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  How to Create Something Valuable from an Irritant

  Wrapping up our tour through BJ Fogg’s brilliant mind and equally brilliant book Tiny Habits, Today we’re going to talk about something he calls “Pearl Habits.” I love this idea. In fact, it’s basically his take on a recent +1 of ours called: The S → R Game in which we had some fun cr...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: Tiny Habits

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Habits

  antifragility Grit Habits omms productivity spiral-up Work

  #1210

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Rise to the Occasion

  #1202

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Be Your Very Best in the Darkest Moments

  In our last +1, we spent some more time with Admiral McRaven and invited Rocky to the party (via Desmond Clark) to share his wisdom on the fact that life will (inevitably!) knock us down and that it’s all about having the courage to GET BACK UP. Again. And again. And again. As I typed that out, I thoug...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: Make Your Bed

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Confidence

  Agency amor-fati antifragility confidence Grit Mental Toughness SEAL soul Spirit

  #1202

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Rocky on How Winning Is Done

  #1201

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Wisdom on Eating Sugar Cookies

  In our last +1, we spent some time with 4-Star Admiral William H. McRaven. We made some sugar cookies from the challenges life inevitably (!) serves up as we reminded ourselves that life’s not fair and that our job, when we’re inevitably (!) knocked down, is to drive on. We’ll come back to more wis...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: The Psychology of Winning

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Confidence

  Agency amor-fati antifragility confidence Grit Mental Toughness soul Spirit

  #1201

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  You = Sugar Cookie

  #1200

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Life's Not Fair--Drive On!

  Admiral William H. McRaven is a Retired U.S. Navy SEAL who served for thirty-seven years and commanded at every level. As a Four-Star Admiral, his final assignment was as Commander of all U.S. Special Operations Forces. (During this time, he oversaw the covert mission that killed Osama bin Laden.) In 201...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: Make Your Bed

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Confidence

  Agency amor-fati antifragility confidence Grit Mental Toughness SEAL soul Spirit

  #1200

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  The Art of Precious Scars

  #1169

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Kintsugi & You

  In our last +1, we talked about Stephen Joseph’s “shattered vase” metaphor to help us understand one powerful way to respond to trauma: rather than try to tape and glue the shattered vase back together, we take the pieces and make a mosaic. I recently shared that wisdom in one of our 2....

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: What Doesn't Kill Us

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Conquering Perfectionism

  amor-fati antifragility conquering-perfectionism Growth Mental Toughness omms Work

  #1169

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  The Shattered Vase

  #1168

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Tape + Glue vs. Mosaic

  In our last +1, we took a quick look at the science of posttraumatic growth. Today I want to spend another moment on the subject and talk about one of the metaphors Stephen Joseph uses to bring his wisdom home in What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth. Stephen tells us: &#...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: What Doesn't Kill Us

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Conquering Perfectionism

  amor-fati antifragility Coach conquering-perfectionism Growth Mental Toughness omms Work

  #1168

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  What Doesn’t Kill Us

  #1167

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  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...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: What Doesn't Kill Us

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Conquering Fear

  antifragility Best of Optimize conquering-fear Grit Growth Mental Toughness omms Work

  #1167

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Operationalizing Antifragile Confidence

  #1154

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  If… Then… Repeat. BOOM!

  In our last +1, we spent some more time with our beloved Roman Stoic Seneca. As you may recall, first he told us that “Disaster is virtue’s opportunity.” Then he told us: “Make progress, and, before all else, try hard to be consistent with yourself.” Note: That second gem ha...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: The Stoic Art of Living

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Confidence

  antifragility commitment confidence emotional-stamina productivity Systems Work

  #1154

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Disaster =

  #1152

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Virtue’s Opportunity

  If you haven’t noticed, I can’t quite get enough of Stoic wisdom. In fact, I can’t quite get enough of ancient (Stoic) wisdom AND modern science—which is why I’ve been on a little streak of reading one positive psychology book then a Stoic book then another science of flourishin...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: The Stoic Art of Living

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Stoicism

  antifragility Grit Mental Toughness Practice stoicism Virtue Work

  #1152

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  A New Take on Mis-takes

  #1137

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Using Them as Fuel for Our Antifragile Fires

  In our last +1, we spent some time with an Academy Award-nominated documentarian who reminded us that we need to be willing to fail. Actually, he reminded us that those hundreds of unused hours of filming weren’t failures. “Each frame was an important part of the overall process, even those t...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: The Courage Quotient

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Conquering Perfectionism

  antifragility conquering-perfectionism Growth Mental Toughness Mindset mis-take Work

  #1137

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Your Philosopher’s Wand

  #1131

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Goes Well with Your Philosopher’s Stone

  In our last couple +1s, we’ve been having fun using our magic wands to alchemize adversity into exceptional opportunities for growth. Among other things, we reflected on the fact that, as Abraham Maslow put it when studying his paragons of flourishing: “the most important learning lessonsR...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Stoicism

  antifragility Best of Optimize equanimity Growth Harry Potter omms stoicism Wisdom Work

  #1131

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Alchemizing Adversity

  #1130

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Into Exceptional Opportunities for Growth

  In our last +1, we all get issued our magic wand. It can alchemize any and all challenges into fuel for our growth. Thank you, Hermes and Epictetus!! I mentioned the fact that Ward Farnsworth shared that passage in his great book The Practicing Stoic. He shared it in a chapter on how Stoics deal with adv...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: The Practicing Stoic

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Stoicism

  antifragility equanimity Growth omms stoicism Wisdom Work

  #1130

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
• 

  Your Secret Weapon

  #1129

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Thank You, Epictetus and Hermes

  In our last +1, we had some fun making our Optimize virtue compass. Recall the four cardinal points correspond with our four cardinal virtues. At the top, pointing North, we have Wisdom. At the bottom, pointing South, we have Self-Mastery. At the left, pointing West, we have Courage. At the right, pointi...

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  +1 inspired by Note: The Practicing Stoic

  Packs:

  Antifragility & Stoicism

  antifragility equanimity Grit omms stoicism Wisdom Work

  #1129

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now

  Get instant access to all +1's!

  Join nearly 10,000 members in the
  1,000-Day Epic Optimizing Challenge
  and start optimizing your life today.

  Join Now
Show more +1s

Loading more +1s for you...