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  Another Way to Zoom In + Zoom Out

  In our last +1, we talked about the power of drawing a huge circle and then a little pin-point dot. Zooming in to rock the current challenge. And zooming out to hold the bigger picture. Here’s another way to look at it. The master warrior-of-the-mind Philosopher has a ton of tools in h...

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  The Big Picture

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  Zoom In + Zoom Out

  Let’s do one more to round out our little series of +1s on how to become more Antifragile. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that whatever challenge is capturing our attention for the moment is EVERYTHING!! If we aren’t mindful, we can feel so attached to the outcome of t...

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  Antifragile Barbells

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  How to Craft an Optimal Strategy for Life and Other Important Things

  Continuing our Antifragile theme, let’s talk about another way Nassim Taleb tells us to approach things if we want to avoid being fragile. He’s using this example in the context of investing but I love to apply it to EVERYTHING. Imagine a barbell like the kind you’d find at a gym. ...

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  Infinite Optionality

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  The Ticket to Antifragility

  Let’s talk some more about how to become Antifragile. We’ve already talked about it on a high level. Super quick recap: If you’re fragile you break easily. If you’re robust you withstand more pressure until you break. If you’...

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  Approach vs. Avoidance

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  What Do You Do When You Feel Challenged?

  What do you do when you feel challenged? Do you APPROACH the challenge? Or, do you AVOID it? Psychologists tell us that this is one of the distinguishing variables between the healthiest and least healthy among us (and, of course, between our healthiest and least healthy moments!).

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  States vs. Traits

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  How to Quit Being a Cannonball

  Ken Wilber tells us there’s a big difference between what he calls “states” and “traits.” It’s pretty easy to have a “state” experience during which we feel super fired up. Think about the last time you attended a weekend workshop or got super inspired reading a book or doing wh...

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  The Zeigarnik Effect

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  How to Use It to Your Optimizing Advantage

  Today we’re going to meet a woman named Bluma Zeigarnik. Bluma was a Russian psychologist who did some fascinating research. Back in the 1920s, Bluma’s Professor Kurt Lewin noticed that waiters who hadn’t been paid for their orders had better memories for those orders than they had...

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  Thinking vs. Doing

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  Lessons from a Beach Ball

  In one of my coaching sessions with Phil Stutz he told me to write something down. (He often does that. 😃) He said, “Draw a horizontal line. Above that line, put ‘Thinking Space.’ Below the line, put ‘Work Space.’” Then he asked me, “You know what the ‘Thinking Spa...

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  Chunk It!

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  Break Your Epic Goals into Bite-Size Chunks

  In our last +1, we talked about reducing Delay to increase Motivation. I briefly mentioned the power of “chunking” a big goal into small components. Let’s talk more about that. First, this Henry Ford gem: “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” A...

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  Eliminate Delay

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  To Increase Motivation and Jumbo Crushing

  In our last +1, we revisited the Motivation Equation. Have you gotten that tattooed on your forehead (or at least in your brain!) yet?! I repeat it because Piers Steele won the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in psychology coming up with that equation after doing a meta analysis of thousan...

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  How to Add a Month to Your Year

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  In One Simple Step

  Let’s go back to our Motivation Equation for Today’s +1. You may recall that Motivation = Expectation x Value divided by Impulsivity x

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  Want to Improve? Measure

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  The Power of a Pedometer and Other Measuring Devices

  Did you know that one of the easiest ways to optimize any aspect of your life is to simply measure it? Yep. In fact, this effect is so powerful that it’s actually a big issue in research studies. Get this: Simply asking people to pay attention to something IMMEDIATELY and SIGNIF...

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  How to Approach the Day AFTER a Sub-Optimal Day

  You ever have the kind of day where you fall short of your super high standards and wonder what just happened? (Laughing.) Me, too. Now, thankfully, as we evolve, those “bad days” become less dramatic than the prior really bad days but they’re still going to happen as we c...

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  The Marshmallow Test

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  Can You Wait for Two?

  As we recently discussed, Walter Mischel is one of the world’s leading researchers on the science of willpower. You’ve probably heard about his classic study called The Marshmallow Test. Here’s the quick story: Preschool kids are brought into a simple little room. An adult tells the child...

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  Does Your Future Self Look More Like a Stranger or You?

  In our last +1, we had our brains scanned and learned that the pain of procrastination is only in the ANTICIPATION of doing something—not in the actual doing. (Good to know!) For Today’s +1, let’s stay tucked inside that fMRI and do a little more brain scanning. Walter Mischel is o...

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