Optimism EPISODES

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The 1952 Summer Olympic games were not a disappointment for Roger Bannister, why? In Joe Manganiello's book Evolution: The Cutting-Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You Have Always Wanted. we learn from Joe, how Roger Bannister trained mentally and physically to break the 4 minute mile! Key Points from the Episode: Bannister's training regimeHow do you break down your impossible goal?Put t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #149 brings us one of the most powerful insights we have covered from these books. In 2008, Dr. John Ratey wrote Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Thank you Dr. Ratey for sharing these nuggets with us! It's pretty cool!! Key Points from the Episode: Recap of our earlier MM#54 on this very subject and book, Balancing of the brain is important and ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In 2015 Kelly McGonigal authored a fantastic book, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good For You and How To Get Good At It And in todays MOJO Minute, we are going to mine some excellent nuggets of wisdom out of that book Key Points from the Episode: Kelly offers us a great definition of stressThe mindset change around stressHow to use the Challenge Response to gain the upper handOther resources: Want to leave a review?...

In this MOJO Minute, we continue with Marci Shimoff’s excellent work, Happy For No Reason in combination with fmr Navy Seal Mark Divine’s third book, Staring Down the Fear Wolf for a fabulous nugget of wisdom to ponder today.

Key Points from the Episode:
A fascinating Cherokee elder story shared by two great authors

How do you think about your own thinking?

What wolf are you feeding?

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Well if you are tired of the bad news, David dives deep into the MOJO Academy archives to help us find something positive.

Learned Optimism is a wonderful book by a great writer and forerunner in the positive psychology movement, Martin Seligman.

Key Points from the Episode:
Are habits of thinking etched into our DNA from the beginning?

Should we start reviewing fiction books starting with George Orwell's 1984? ha ha!

Start out your day with positive reading? perhaps a MOJO Academy review wi...

In this episode, we explore our feelings and how they correlate to our decisions and choices. Along the way, we check out quotes from Eat that Frog and Learned Optimism finally concluding with Man's Search for Meaning (affiliate links)

Key points:
Brian Tracy explains why we need a personal cheerleader

Martin Seligman helps to understand the choice we have in choosing our feelings

Victor Frankl distills all this knowledge into a powerful nugget of wisdom--No matter how bad our circumstances--...

In this episode, we check out the intersection of Functional optimism and the Obstacle is the way and how both can push us towards a flourishing life.

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Key points:
The Big Picture by Tony Horton

The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday

How to make functional optimism work for you

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