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  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 ...

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  Your Secret Weapon

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  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...

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  Fall Down Seven Times

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  Get Up Eight (OMMS!)

  In our last few +1s, we’ve been spending some time with world-class fear wolf-tamer, Mark Divine as we explore wisdom from his new book Staring Down the Wolf.

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  The Two Wolves

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  Let’s Name Them (To Tame Them)

  In our last +1, we spent some time with Mark Divine and the two wolves within each of us. As I read that story, I made a note to include it as part of our Mastery Series. In Module II: Hero-ology, we have wisdom on How to C...

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  Staring Down the Wolf

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  Which One Are YOU Feeding?

  As we’ve discussed, I’m a big fan of Mark Divine. I can still remember reading Unbeatable Mind years ago shortly after blowing up the prior version of our bu...

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  Legitimate Suffering

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  Let’s Allow It and Stop Multiplying It

  In our last +1, we talked about falling UPWARD and the fact that life will (hate to continue to break the news to you) involve suffering. I mentioned the phrase Richard Rohr uses to ...

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  How to Fall Upward

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  Embrace “Necessary Suffering”

  Let’s go back to Richard Rohr and his wisdom from Falling Upward. We haven’t talked about the title of the book yet. “Falling UPWAR...

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  How We Endure

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  Olympic Moments: When Last Place = Historic Place

  Let’s go back to Kelly McGonigal’s The Joy of Movement. In addition to deepening my understanding of the science of WHY exercise/movement is SO ESSEN...

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  OMMS Journaling

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  Science of: Gratitude, Suffering, and Redemption

  In our last couple +1s, we reflected on the fact that we’d be wise to remember that time flies and the fact that (newsflash!) we’re not going to live forever. That “contrasting” as the scientists call it, provides a healthy perspective shift that tends to force us into a...

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  The Peanut Gallery

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  vs. Fellow Heroes in the Arena

  Back in the day, we had a +1 on “The Optimizer in the Arena” in which we reflected on Teddy Roosevelt’s epic “Citizenship in a Republic” speech that became known as “The Man in the Are...

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  Practice Balls

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  Make that: PRACTICE Balls

  The other day I was walking home from our studio. It’s only a few minutes from our house near downtown Ojai, California. (Fun fact for curious souls, our studio-office is the former headquarters for David Allen’s Getting Things Done organization.) I’d just filmed 36 +1s. My brain w...

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  Consistency vs. Prosistency

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  Standing Together Is a (Very!) Good Thing

  In our last +1, we talked about the fact that problems (when viewed from the right Optimizing mindset) are simply balls we get to throw forward as we play the game of life. As we said: When we’re playing the game right, “problems” are POSITIVE not negative. Again: It’s PROblems n...

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  Your Learning Zone

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  vs. Your Comfort and Panic Zones

  In our last +1, we did a gold-medal-winning layback Ina Bauer with Shizuka Arakawa. Then we counted the number of times she had to fall on her butt in order to achieve that ineffably elegant level of excell...

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  Falling on Your Butt

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  Approximately 20,000 Times

  Geoff Colvin’s Talent Is Overrated is a great book. It falls into the “

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  Nietzsche on Shedding One’s Skin

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  Me, You and Mr. Little Lizard

  This morning I hit the Trail for a super easy recovery day walk-hike. As I was cruising along enjoying the astonishingly perfect blue skies set behind the equally perfect brown-green landscape, I saw a lizard. Now, this was a funny-looking lizard. At first glance as he scurried by...

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