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The Mystery of the Oscars
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In our last +1, we hung out with Goldilocks and set some goals that landed in the right spot on that Inverted U of ours—challenging but doable. Today I’d like to go back to Ian Robertson and his great book The Winner Effect. We’re going to talk about the fascinating neuroscience of winning an Oscar...

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Goldilocks Goals
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Setting Targets That Are Juuuuuust Right

Ian Robertson is one of the world’s preeminent neuropsychologists. He’s both a clinical psychologist AND a neuroscientist—which is a rare combination. I recently enjoyed a couple of his books. First, a book called The Stress Test in which he walks us through the neuroscience of “How Pressure ...

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When You’re Neck Deep in Mud
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Sing!

Not too long ago, we coined a new word: comcourage. We talked about the fact, as important as it is to have the ability to suffer with someone, it’s AT LEAST as important (I’d argue it’s significantly MORE important) to have the ability to have courage with someone—especially in times like those ...

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“The Most Robust Strategy”
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To Cultivate Optimism Is…

In our last +1, we talked about some (more) crazy stats on the power of Optimism. We have those long-lived nuns and Martin Seligman telling us that he and his colleagues “estimate that being in the upper quartile of optimism seems to have a beneficial effect on cardiovascular risk roughly equivalen...

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Planting Trees with Kennedy
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It’ll Take 100 Years? So... Start TODAY!

The other day I was chatting with our Head Coach Michael Balchan and he mentioned Kennedy’s quote about a tree taking decades to reach maturity; therefore, we should plant it NOW! I knew I wanted to do a +1 on it, so this morning I Googled “Kennedy Quote Tree.” I found the quote. Then I...

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The 1, 2, 3 of Antifragility
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How to Operationalize OMMS

This morning I was out on the Trail enjoying (yet!) another stunningly beautiful Ojai morning. I was thinking about our Mastery Series Module on How to Create Antifragile Confidence, Heroic Courage, and Response-ability. The Theory side of that session will be stacked and we’ll have a range of Tool...

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Passing Through the Worst and Realizing It’s the Best

In our last +1, we talked about the power of commitments. I referenced my notes from my chat with my Yoda who gave us the koan-wisdom: “Success doesn’t matter in this world, commitment does.” Then we connected that to David Brooks and his wisdom on how to climb the second mountain in ou...

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What Went Well? (And Why?!)
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Proven Way to Pump up the ‘Ol Gratitude Muscles

Gratitude. Yes, we’ve been chatting about it quite a bit recently. That’s deliberate. You know how we recently established the (scientifically-validated) Top 2 virtues as Zest + Hope? Well… Positive psychologists arm wrestle a bit about those top two virtues. While Ryan Niemiec (via The...

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Memento (Time) Flies
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28 Days Later

In our last +1, we talked about the science of Memento Mori. And, for the courageous among us, we actually walked through the “death” scenario scientists use to create more gratitude in their test subjects. Now… Right after I typed that +1, I cruised into the bathroom (TMI? 😲 ) where...

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Memento Privilege
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The Science of Memento Mori

Let’s continue our exploration of the science of gratitude for another moment (or three). In his great book Gratitude Works!, Robert Emmons walks us through a number of practices we can use to cultivate our gratitude. As discussed, the #1 practice he recommends is gratitude journaling. Then there&#...

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The #1 Obstacle to Gratitude
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And Its Remedy

In our last +1, we continued our exploration of the science of gratitude by practicing the grateful art of shifting from taking things “for granted” to seeing all the gifts “AS GRANTED” to us. Today I want to talk about the #1 thing that gets in the way of gratitude. Q: Can you gu...

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Taking Things FOR GRANTED vs. AS GRANTED
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Let’s Choose Wisely

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the science of gratitude and explored some tips on Robert Emmons’ #1 practice: Gratitude Journaling. Today I want to chat about one of the distinctions I most loved from his book Gratitude Works! He tells us: “Think about and then write down those aspec...

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The Ultimate Gift
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Existence Itself

In our last +1 we talked about David Brooks’ two mountains and connected them to the metaphor of stepping out of our shiny race cars and into the pit crew to help OTHERS win THEIR races in life. I encouraged us to get tactical about it—picking three people and thinking of one thing we could do fo...

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Hope & Zest - Part 2
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The Science of Spartans

Not too long ago, we chatted about the Big 2 Virtues—the two virtues that science says are MOST correlated with a deep sense of true happiness and flourishing. Do you remember what they were? Hope. And Zest. Now… As I was preparing for the talk I was going to give on the Saturday morning right be...

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The Big 2 Virtues
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Can You Guess What They Are?

Not too long ago, we talked about the four cardinal virtues of ancient Stoicism then connected those virtues to the six core virtues of the modern positive psychology movement THEN distilled all those virtues into the four cardinal virtues of Optimize. Super-quick recap: Stoics said: Wisdom + Temperance ...

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The Psychology of Hope

You Can Get There from Here

by Charles R. Snyder

Rick Snyder was the founder of research into the science of hope. And, he was one of the pioneers of the positive psychology movement. In fact, he literally wrote the textbook on “Positive Psychology.” Big Ideas we explore include the three components of hope (goals + willpower + way power), the portrait of a high-hope person, how to create the right goals, remembering you WILL face obstacles, the power of multiple pathways and being a time traveler making a difference.

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Pursuing the Good Life

100 Reflections on Positive Psychology

by Christopher Peterson

Christopher Peterson was an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan. He was also one of the founders of the positive psychology movement. He worked closely with Martin Seligman to create one of my favorite surveys: the VIA (Virtues-in-Action) Survey of Character Strengths. This book is essentially a collection of 100 blog posts Chris created for his popular blog on Psychology Today. Big Ideas we explore include: good hope and bad hope, how to truly matter, how to avoid a sub-optimal epitaph and the keys to flourishing relationships.

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Spiritual Evolution

How We Are Wired for Faith, Hope, and Love

by George Vaillant

George Vaillant is a psychiatrist and Harvard professor who, for 35 years, led Harvard’s 70+ year Study of Adult Development. (You learn a thing or three when you follow the development of teenagers as they grew into great-grandparents.) In this book, he tells us that we can evolve spiritually. Leaning on his experience running Harvard’s study plus cultural anthropology, ethology and neuroscience, he walks us through the biological underpinnings of the positive emotions that make up our spirituality: faith, love, hope, joy, forgiveness, compassion and awe.

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Making Hope Happen

Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others

by Shane J. Lopez, PhD

Did you know there's a science of hope? Yep. And Shane Lopez is the world's leading researchig studying the science of hope. This book is an inspiring look at the nuts and bolts of cultivating hope. Big Ideas we explore include differentiating hope from fantastizing and dwelling, the three keys to hope (goals + agency + pathways) , futurecasting, sirens, when/where plans and why hope is so important for leadership.

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