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Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Here are 5 of my favorite Big Ideas from It Takes What It Takes by Trevor Moawad. Hope you enjoy! Trevor Moawad is a mental conditioning coach to elite performers. He is well known for being the mental coach to Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and has worked closely with prestigious NCAA football programs and coaches, the US Special Operations community, Major League Baseball, and the NBA. This book is, as per the sub-title, all about "How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life." I loved it and, if you're also equally fired up by the mental toughness in sports and life genre, I think you'll enjoy it as much as I did. Big Ideas we explore include neutral thinking (much better than positive or negative), goats and G.O.A.T.s, the law of substitution (focus!), the illusion of choice (if you're REALLY ALL IN, there is no choice), and

Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Here are 5 of my favorite Big Ideas from Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. Hope you enjoy! Matthew Walker is one of the world's leading neuroscientists and sleep experts. He's a professor at UC Berkeley (and former professor at Harvard) who has spent decades studying why we sleep and how to, as per the sub-title of this book, unlock the power of sleep and dreams. As you know if you've been following along, I'm a HUGE advocate of Optimizing our sleep as a fundamental practice in Optimizing our lives. This book has made me EVEN MORE bullish about the power of sleep. The consequences of chronically depriving ourselves of the sleep we need? Well, they're astonishingly devastating—dramatically increasing the odds of having everything from mood disorders to cancer (and everything else we don't want). Big Ideas we explore include the fact that you're more li

Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Here are 5 of my favorite Big Ideas from Future Visions by Abraham Maslow. Hope you enjoy! As you know if you've been following along, I love Abraham Maslow and feel a deep kinship to him and his work. We have featured two of the books he published during his lifetime: Toward a Psychology of Being and Motivation and Personality. Although this book has only ONE review on Amazon and I could only buy a used copy of it, I knew I'd love it. And, although I had already been deeply influenced by Maslow and his thinking, there was something about reading his unpublished essays and journal thoughts that made me feel that much more connected to this great man. Big Ideas we explore include Maslow's thoughts on the "eupsychian ideal" (aka: the "eudaemonic ideal"!), the psychology of happiness (eudaimonology!!), Stoic philosophy (Maslow was a fan), vicious cultu

In our last +1, we chatted about the fact that your food label might be lying to you by stuffing a few variations of cancer candy (aka sugar) into your jam so "SUGAR" doesn't make its way to the top slot.    (Which is one of the reasons you and your Loved ones might be unknowingly consuming A LOT more sugar than you think and, unfortunately, suffering the SIGNIFICANT consequences.)   Today I want to chat about some more wisdom from Mark Hyman's great book Food Fix. In our next +1, we'll focus on his #1 tip for Optimizing your personal health AND a powerful way to collectively pull a lever on systemic change.   But, first, talk about the sugar = cancer candy theme for another moment.   This is a BIG deal and something we want to REALLY get.    So…   Let's go back to Tom Rath's Eat Move Sleep again.    Quick note: Tom is a super-conservative scientist at Gallup. He also has a "rare and catastrophic genetic mutation" that makes him vulnerabl

After drafting that last +1, I hit my 90-minute mark for my second Deep Work Time Block of the day, which, of course, triggered one of my keystone algorithms.   "After 90-minutes of Deep Work, I take a 15-20 minute break."   So…   I grabbed a little bite to eat and went on a short walk around our property. As I was walking, I contemplated the whole idea of "sin" and missing the mark in our lives.   Joseph Campbell (who was also raised Catholic) came to mind. I just love his wisdom on the subject. We featured it in a +1 called "Father, Bless Me."   As you may recall, Campbell tells us: "Ramakrishna once said that if all you think of are your sins, then you are a sinner. And when I read that, I thought of my boyhood, going to confession on Saturdays, meditating on all the little sins that I had committed during the week. Now I think one should go and say, 'Bless me, Father, for I have been great, these are the good things I have done this week.' Identify your notion of y

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