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  Zigs and Zags

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  Emerson on Your Voyage of a Hundred Tacks

  In our last +1, we talked about the fact that life is rarely never one perfectly beautiful, geometrically progressive staircase to the moon. Today I’d like to shine a brighter light on that reality. Let’s invite Ralph Waldo Emerson to the Optimizing party. He tells ...

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  Embracing the Mess

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  A Key Feature of Your Hero’s Journey

  In our last couple +1s, we talked about the art and science of lining up our dominoes in one neat and shiny staircase to moon-heaven. 🚶 🌝 It all sounds so nice and easy when it’s mapped out like that, eh? (Hah.) But… Alas, there are a few important asterisks to that litt...

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  Let’s Try to Be Optimists

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  But Try Not to Be Stupid

  Let’s wrap up our quick look at Colin Powell’s thoughts on the power of grounded optimism with one more gem. This one’s from Rule #4 of his 13 Rules. The Rule? “It Can Be Done.” Powell tells us: “This familiar quotation is on a desk plaque given to me by the great ...

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  Colin Powell on Hope

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  “It’s a Bad Supper, but Makes a Good Breakfast”

  In our last +1, we talked about my recent Google search to learn more about force multipliers. We learned that a hammer is a force multiplier—helping us get more done with the same amount of effort. (And a lot less pain in the old hand!) We also learned that, according to the wise leader

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  Mr. Rogers' Creative Neighborhood

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  Won’t You Be a Creator?

  The other day I watched the documentary on Fred Rogers (aka Mister Rogers) called Won’t You Be My Neighbor? It’s absolutely FANTASTIC. I highly, highly (!) recommend it. It’s basical...

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  How to Make a Life Omelet

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  Remember: Important Step = Break Some Eggs

  In our last +1, we talked about the fact that I’m not the handiest of men and then we had fun getting our grit on as we stocked our toolshed with a range of sandpaper for the rough and for the fine Optimizing work we’re up to. Today I’d like to step into the kitchen. But first ...

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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...

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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 some...

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  Use It or Lose It, a Case Study

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  Aka: Where’d My Left Forearm Go?

  In our last +1, we had fun hanging out with my new bionic arm as we stepped into the stimulus-response gap to choose our optimal response to life’s inevitable challenges. I briefly mentioned the fact that, the day after the surgery I was told they put 18 screws into my arm to connect the two ...

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  The Audience Effect

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  Science Says: Eyeballs Optimize

  Concluding our quick tour through How to Walk on Fire (aka How Bad Do You Want It?), let’s talk about one more “coping strategy” for rocking it. It’s called “The Audie...

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  The Psychology of Pain

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  Want to Endure More Pain? Science Says: Brace Yourself

  Continuing our exploration of how to endure the pain of walking over burning (psychological) coals in pursuit of the upper limits of our potential, let’s talk about one of Matt Fitzgerald’s recommended “coping strategies” to Optimize our perception of effort and get closer to t...

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  The Fire Walk of Life

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  How Far Will You Go Today (and Tomorrow and..)

  In our last +1, we checked in on how bad you want it and talked about some of your favorite coping strategies to Optimize your relationship to your perception of effort so you can come closer to actualizing your potential and truly giving us all you’ve got before you give up. (That’s an Optimizing...

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  NEGU!

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  Never Ever Give Up

  In our last couple +1s, we’ve been having fun with Alden Mills and his big legs. (Hah.) We learned that the key to being unstoppable can be captured in the simple acronym UPERSIST as we munched on some reasons to believe in ourselves. Today I want to talk about another fun idea.

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  UPERSIST!

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  How to Be Unstoppable

  In our last +1, we talked about you feasting on your Hero Bars—using memories of your past success as fuel to walk through fear doors today. (You grab three for Today?) All of those Cookies and Hero Bars remind me of an idea from former Navy SEAL Alden Mills’ great book

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  100 Pounds of Sand

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  The Story of Two Sandbags

  In our last few +1s, we’ve been having fun hanging out with Spartan Race Founder/CEO Joe De Sena, his son Jack and his cast-iron friend Leo. We also met my new sweatband Leonidas. Today I’d like to talk about 100 pounds of sand....

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