+1: #475 Want Recognition?
Continuing our good times with Confucius, here's one of the gems from his Analects that has tattooed itself on my brain since I read it a decade ago. "The Master said, He does not mind not being i...
24 Juli 20184min
+1: #470 How to Win the Olympic Games
I can't resist. One more +1 on Aristotle. So… The Olympic Games started in Olympia (not too far outside of Athens) in 776 BC. A few centuries later, Aristotle told us that you can't just SHOW ...
19 Juli 20183min
+1: #465 Virtuous Activity of the Soul
In our last +1, we talked about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the fact that his word for "happiness" was VERY different than our word. Eudaimonia, as we discussed, literally means "go...
14 Juli 20183min
+1: #460 Delete THAT App
In our last +1, we talked about the fact that 25 minutes every day = 2 YEARS of your life. Did you figure out how you're wasting time and make some progress eliminating that time wasting activity?...
9 Juli 20183min
+1: #455 The Master
George Leonard was an aikido master who wrote a great little book called Mastery. It's a tiny little book packed with a ton of wisdom. I highly recommend it. There's one particular passage th...
4 Juli 20186min
+1: #450 Food Poisons Part 2
In our last +1, we talked about Rule #1 of Nutrition. You remember what it was? Basic idea: It's not what you start eating that has the most positive impact. It's what you STOP eating. There aren...
29 Juni 20185min
+1: #445 Sentence Completions
Nathaniel Branden was a fascinating guy. As a teenager he wrote a fan letter to Ayn Rand—which she ignored. Then he wrote another letter a little later which led to an intimate relationship and colla...
24 Juni 20183min
+1: #440 Exercise vs. Zoloft
We've talked about how exercise is kinda like taking a little bit of Ritalin and a little bit of Prozac, but somehow we've gotten this far into our +1 series without talking about the fact that exerc...
19 Juni 20184min
