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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 ...

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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 hav...

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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...

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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 tw...

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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 b...

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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 nu...

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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....

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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

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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 c...

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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...

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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: Wis...

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Your Limitations
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Idea: Stop Arguing for Them

In our last +11 (that got long didn’t it?!), we talked about my love of the word forge and I invited you to join our Optimize Soul Force Forge. Today’s +1 is going to be quick. I want to talk about you...

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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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Words Matter - Part II
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With What Words Are YOU Priming Yourself?

Continuing our brief exploration of the power of placebo-words (and expectations), I’d like to go back to Harvard and walk from Benson’s lab in the Medical School back to Langer’s Psychology of Possibility Lab for a couple more bits of wisdom. Knowing that we’re all busy and ready to go...

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Aka: An Astonishing Study on the Power of Placebos

In our last +1 we talked about placebos (“I shall be pleasing”) and nocebos (“I shall cause harm”). I promised to talk about what I consider one of the all-time most crazy-awesome studies. (Hah.) (Seriously.) We’ll revisit another Harvard professor for this on...

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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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