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  LIEs + BS

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  Limited Ideas Entertained That Wreak Havoc on Our Belief Systems

  In our last +1, we talked about baby elephants and you. Recall that a baby elephant is often tethered to a stake that it can’t pull out when it’s young. Then it puts on 10,000 pounds en route to becoming the strongest land animal on the planet—capable of carrying the equivalent of over 10...

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  Confidence & Self-Image

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  Learned Limitlessness

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  Baby Elephants and You

  Jim Kwik is one of the world’s leading peak performance gurus. His specialty is memory improvement, brain optimization and accelerated learning and he’s “served as the brain coach to a who’s who of Hollywood’s elite, professional athletes, political leaders, and business magnates....

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  The Art of Precious Scars

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  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...

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  Antifragility & Conquering Perfectionism

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  The Shattered Vase

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  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

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  What Doesn’t Kill Us

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  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

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  Disaster =

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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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  In Case of Extreme Challenges

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  Break Glass!

  We’ve spent the last week or so exploring courage. As it turns out, as I was reading that book on the science of courage, Emerson and I got to hang out with some of the most courageous humans on the planet: Navy SEALs. Super-quick (Top Secret) context. 🤓 Apparently a coup...

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  Playing to Win

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  vs. Playing Not to Lose

  Wrapping up our tour through Robert Biswas-Diener’s brain and book, let’s talk about another Tool we can use to boost our Courage Quotient. Robert tells us that it’s important to set meaningful goals. He also tells us that HOW we set those goals is important. Let...

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  A New Take on Mis-takes

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  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...

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  Creating Your Life Documentary

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  Note: It’s All an Important Part of the Process

  In our last +1, we pulled some more wisdom from Robert Biswas-Diener’s Courage Quotient. Specifically, we focused on some wisdom from a chapter calle...

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  Be Willing to Fail

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  Edison, Churchill and YOU!

  Continuing our little series on the science of courage, how about some more wisdom from Robert Biswas-Diener? In

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  How to Act Boldly

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  Choose Courageous Roles

  In our last couple of +1s, we’ve chatted about the science of courage. Let’s continue that discussion with some more pro tips on how to Optimize our Courage Quotient. In

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  Courage Tools

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  Here Are My Favorites—Yours?

  In our last +1, we talked about the science of courage and did some quick napkin math on our Courage Quotients. Recall that Robert Biswas-Diener tells us that courage has two parts and can be capt...

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  The Courage Quotient

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  How’s Yours?

  Robert Biswas-Diener is known as the Indiana Jones of Positive Psychology. As per his bio, “his research has taken him to such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya and Israel.” (And, very important note: “He is afraid of quicksand and snakes.” 🤠) Robert ...

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  How to Make an OMMS Sandwich

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  Start with the Meaty-Obstacle + Add Goodness

  Not too long ago we talked about how to operationalize Antifragile OMMS via a 1-2 then 1-2-3 process. Start with Wisdom + Self-Mastery then throw in some Gratitude, Hope and Zest and voila!...

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