Hard Work EPISODES

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#151 we discuss what happens to all of us. Procrastination! For help, we enlist Timothy Pyschyl's Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide To Strategies For Change Key Points from the Episode: We cover the sad breaking news: The beloved American historian David McCullough passed away. We offer a quick tribute. Time to eat our own dog food and set the good example to end (or lim...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Confucius over 2500 years ago said, "There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two emperors on the earth." Strap yourselves in for this Liberty 🗽 Minute as it will be quite depressing. In 2015, Michael Pillsbury had the intellectual honesty to admit as a "China expert" he was completely wrong about China's intentions and direction and so he wrote, our MOJO book of the day, The Hundred-Year Marathon: China'...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message If you have ever done a Tony Horton home fitness video, then this MOJO Minute will get you excited! Reason being, we dig into Tony’s 2014 book The Big Picture: 11 laws That Will Change your Life to share this great nugget of wisdom Key Points from the Episode: The P90X craze of the 2010’s Don Miguel Ruiz’s Four AgreementsOther resources: Want to leave a review? Click here, and if we earned a five-star revie...

MOJO Minute 130 takes us to work to help us find out how to remove drudgery from our worklife and work with more purpose & concentration and less distraction! To help us in this MM, we turn to Bruce Daisley and his book, Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to your Work
Key points:
Multi-tasking myth upheld

David's own personal "monk morning mode"

How to integrate Deep Work into your worklife!

CORRECTION: towards the end of the podcast, I mistakenly switched from calling the autho...

This is a fun episode, where go to back to one of the great books of all time by perhaps one of the greatest philosophers of all time, Aristotle and his Nicomachean Ethics.

Key Points from the Episode:
Habits are very powerful in good ways and unfortunately in bad ways too.

Aristotle's famous quote on habits

Librarians collect information, data and organize it. Let us act on NOT being librarians but on doers--putting into practice this information.

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In MOJO Minute #83, we finalize our deep dive into the Deep Work habit offered by Cal Newport in his book, Deep Work!

Key Points from the Episode:
How do start a Deep Work session?

What are its characteristics?

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In this correcting MOJO Minute #82, we get to the core characteristics of the Deep Work habit offered by Cal Newport in his book, Deep Work!

Key Points from the Episode:
What is Deep Work?

What is Shallow work?

Can we begin to notice, recognize and limit those distractions preventing us from creating a habit of daily Deep Work?

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In MOJO Minute #81, we unpack the 21st Century Superpower we need to create. Former Navy Seal, Mark Divine helps us with this task in his book, Unbeatable Mind and then we transition to Cal Newport's Deep Work!

Key Points from the Episode:
US Special Operations guys are at the top of the mountain in creating winning mindsets

The five step process in creating an Unbeatable Mind

In cultivating the Deep Work habit we begin to learn the superpower of 21st century

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Happy New Year!

In this first MOJO Minute of 2022, we kick off the new year with a new theme!

Key Points from the Episode:
Consistency beats Intensity

Do the Work per Steven Pressfield

Make it stupid small per our friend Stephen Guise

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In this MOJO minute, we explore how much hard work is required for success and Geoff Colvin in Talent is Overrated (affiliate link) is the book we turn too.

Key Points from the Episode:
What do Michael Jordan and Wolfgang Mozart have in common?

What myth can we put to bed after this MM?

Are you willing to put in the deliberate practice for success?

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In MOJO Minute 61 , we continue to explore Angela Duckworth's book on Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
Key Points from the Episode:
MM#33--Talent vs Hard Work

What is Grittiness?

Why effort counts twice?

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In this quick MOJO Minute we build on our last episode and explore Angela Duckworth's book on Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
Key Points from the Episode:
Why are high achievers special and what traits do they have of which we need to cultivate?

What is the secret to success?

Whats your roadmap to success?

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In this MOJO Minute, we dive deep into the hard work theme again and explore the overlap of talent vs hard work. Along the way, we are helped greatly by Geoff Colvin's suburb book, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else (affiliate link)

Key points:
Talent vs Hard Work

What is deliberate practice

what are the three zones of deliberate practice and in what zone do we grow most?

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In this MOJO Minute, we recap a Pittsburgh Steeler's Pro Football Hall of Fame speech and offer a unique observation about our culture, ultimately concluding with Steven Pressfield's wisdom in Do The Work (affiliate link)

Correction: In the podcast, I said six Pittsburgh Steelers were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Just five Steelers went into the Hall this past weekend. Troy Polamlau, Bill Cowher, Donnie Shell in the 2020 class and the 2021 class included Alan Faneca and Bill Nun...

In this episode, we hear an inspiring story from William McRaven's book, Make your Bed (affiliate link) about Moki Martin.

Key points:
The wonderful power in resiliency in the face of a trajedy.

How to truely look at the world through the right frame of reference.

The incredible and touching example of Lieutenant Martin and how to live a deeply flourishing life in spite of his tragic accident.

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