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  Asking for Qualities

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  A Quick Way to Flip the Switch

  In our last +1, we spent some time with Todd Herman, Batman, Dora the Explorer and YOUR most heroic self. Today we’re going to connect all that goodness to wisdom from the classic peak-performance book

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  You, Batman & Dora the Explorer

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  Time to Put on Your Heroic Costume?

  Not too long ago, we talked about Ellen Langer’s fascinating (!) research on the power of pretending you’re an air force pilot. Play the role well and… Voila! The quality of your vision goes up. (Sing it with me… That’s C R A Y – Z E E!!) In his super-fun book

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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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  Conquering Cancer & Self-Image

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  How to Fix Your Knees

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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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  Placebo vs. Nocebo

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  “I Shall Be Pleasing” vs. “I Shall Cause Harm”

  In our last couple +1s, we’ve been spending time with renowned psychologist Ellen Langer talking about the power of words and the power of placebos. At this stage, most of us know that “the placebo effect” is, basically, the positive effect of simply believing something will help...

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  Capturing a Richer Mindset

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  Via the Power of Placebo-Words

  In our last +1, we revisited Ellen Langer at her “Psychology of Possibility” lab at Harvard to learn that words matter. As you may recall, simply priming people with words associated with old age (via a crossword puzzle!) will cause them to walk more slowly to the elevator than those who we...

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  Science Says: Words Matter

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  A Lot More Than You May Think

  In our last +1, we talked about a few of my favorite “Pro” tips to Prosper as we looked forward at our 5-Year view (Prospectus!), moved forward with hope (Prosper!) and made some progress (Profit!). Today we’re going to step back a moment and briefly chat about WHY all those words matter ...

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  Mental Concrete

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  Let's Not Get Stuck In It

  In our last +1, we hung out with an obscure 20th century philosopher and spiritual teacher named Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov. He wisely reminded us that: “The past is past but it has given birth to the present, and the present contains the roots of the future. This means that you must b...

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  Grateful Pearl Makers

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  What Luck! More Irritants = More Pearls

  In our last +1, we talked about my recent bout with petulance (aka “unreasonable irritation”). (Hah. Go me!) And, I proposed we use any potential future irritants as fuel for our pearl making. Which leads us to a great passage from an obscure little book called

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  Why Be Petulant…

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  When We Can Be Pearl Makers?

  The other day Phil Stutz and I were rocking our Monday at 3:00pm Coaching session. It was session number 100-and-something. I filled up another few pages of notes to add to my inches-thick stack from the last 2.5+ years. The theme of that particular chat? Well… Uh… ...

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  You: Athlete + Scientist + Director

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  The Personas of Habits + Mastery

  In the Mastery component of our Optimize Coach program, we recently spent three weeks chatting about Algorithms. In Part 1 we focused on the Big Picture and how important it is to, as I like to say, use our Willpower wisely to install Habits that run on autopilot via Algorithms. (In many...

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  Want a Rose?

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  Respect the Thorn

  The other day I got back from the Trail after my first Deep Work time block to check in for my time with the kids to give mommy a little time for some self-care and her own Deep Work before I got back at it. Emerson and Eleanor and I planned to go to the park. But Emerson was a little co...

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  Antifragile Confidence

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  ← = Agency Squared

  In our last +1, we (that would be me, the Secret Agent DoubleO-You and our daimons) spent some time hanging out chatting about the power of agency. Today we’re going to talk about it a little more. First, a little more context for the discussion we’ll have Today about why ag...

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  The 5 Second Rule

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  5… 4 … 3 … 2 … 1 … BLASTOFF!

  Mel Robbins has a super-popular TEDx Talk called How to stop screwing yourself. She also wrote a super-popular book called

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  A Learning Mindset

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  Is a Wise Mindset

  In our last +1, we hung out with the WD-40 chemist in his lab and then joined Thomas Edison in his lab. When I pictured those scenes, everyone’s wearing a lab coat. For whatever reason, that lab coat perfectly captures the spirit of an experimenter. And, it reminds me of Michelle Segar...

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