You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson

In our last +1 we talked about Spinny Fingers and how to quickly regain our equanimity when life spins us around. Here's another way. Mark Divine is a former Commander in the Navy SEALs. He tells us...

20 Nov 20174min

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...

20 Nov 201714min

You know those times when you need to initiate a tough conversation and you're kinda sorta dreading it and avoiding it? One of my old mentors once told me that you just need to move through what he c...

19 Nov 20174min

George St-Pierre is one of the greatest mixed martial artists in the world. Ever. Of course, he wasn't always one of the greatest. At one point, he was just a young guy working as a garbage man who D...

17 Nov 20173min

I'm a HUGE fan of Phil and Barry's first book, The Tools. Coming Alive is kinda like The Tools Part 2. In this book, we get four new tools to go along with the original five tools. Big Ideas we explor...

17 Nov 201713min

Have you ever made a mistake? (Hah.) Right. (I've made a mistake or 3 million as well.) Here's the deal: When we approach it with the right mindset (that would be a growth, experimental mindset), ...

15 Nov 20173min

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that Speed Is a Force. Jim Rohn said the same thing a little differently. He told us about the "Law of Diminishing Intent." The basic idea: The likelihood of...

14 Nov 20172min

Speaking of perfectionism, let's look at the essence of Tal Ben-Shahar's great book The Pursuit of Perfect. Tal is one of the world's leading positive psychologists. He taught the largest class in Ha...

12 Nov 20174min