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Wow! It’s MOJO Minute # 💯

Kinda special milestone! 🎊👏

So with that special milestone lets discuss my favorite word: Flourish

And in doing so, we will enlist the help of a great author and expert in this area, Martin Seligman and his book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being.
Key Points from the Episode:
Quick background on the Positive Psychology Movement

Difference between Happiness and Well-being

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In todays SPECIAL MOJO Minute, we talk about the cultural phenomenon known as March Madness by sharing Joe Lunardi's Bracketology: March Madness, College Basketball, and the Creation of a National Obsession.
Key Points from the Episode:
Great words from Gonzaga head mens basketball coach Mark Few

We end the UCLA greatest dynasty debate from the mid 1960's--mid 1970's

Enjoy the games and especially the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat because this tourney will have it all from buzzer be...

Our second installment--in this first full week of Lent for Christians--we check out, perhaps, the greatest autobiography in the world, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.

Key Points from the Episode:
Check out prior MM's 52 and 57 for Dante's Divine Comedy.

Why is St. Augustines's Confessions so compelling?

Why do we commit evil for evil's sake?

In a society obsessed with sex, how to live a virtuous life?

Other resources:
Audible version of Confessions narrated by Simon Vance

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In todays MOJO Minute as we enter, this first full week of Lent for Christians, we examine--the Arabic word Jihad--and perhaps its universal concepts across many religions and great traditions.

Key Points from the Episode:
Two meanings of the word Jihad

The universal concepts across great traditions

What is the better Jihad

Other resources:
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In MOJO Minute #96, we unpack the traditional virtues and vices that help create a persons character.

We get some help from David Issac’s Character Building: A guide for parents and teachers.
Key Points from the Episode:
Why learning and striving for the virtues is important.

Cover the four traditional virtues in detail

Two good self examination questions on one of the virtues.

Other resources:
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In todays MM, we examine that Uber popular Christian classic, The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.

Key Points from the Episode:
The Spiritual War that is going on.

Jesus Christ’s confirmation that there is an evil one “the father of all lies.”

C.S. Lewis’s brilliant theological statements that are woven into the letters.

Other resources:
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In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we dive deep into prayer with Peter Kreeft’s, Prayer for Beginners.

Key points:
What is prayer?

What is the most important thing about prayer and how we do it?

What are the four themes or structures of good prayer?

Other resources:
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By far one of the most requested books for us to review was Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons and World-Class performers by Tim Ferris. It is also one of the hardest books to review. lol

Todays MM will be an overview.

Key Points from the Episode:
Tim's humility.

Its pretty cool that we have covered 4 of contributors in our MOJO Minutes from in this book.

Why this book is a notetakers dream

Other resources:
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Todays MM will be different as we are trying a longer type format and a deeper dive into an important book, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic.
Key Points from the Episode:
You will be uncomfortable

It will be tough to listen too

You can't believe this is happening in the United States

Other resources:
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Staying with our history theme, in this MOJO Minute, we follow Cal Thomas's unique exploration of Sir John Glubb's thought-provoking article which turned into a book, America's Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers...and the Future of the United States.
Key Points from the Episode:
Does America have an expiration date of July 4, 2026?

Much like a individual patient has health markers indicating trend lines for their health, What are America's health markers--for the whole country...

In MM#91, we take a step back to ask why read? why read history? what's the point?

we answer this question with the help from Mike Duncans excellent work, The Storm Before The Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Key Points from the Episode:
Is America following the same trend lines as the Roman Republic before it fell?

Duncan provides a compelling list of why the Roman Republic fell

Cicero's EPIC speech about the fall of the Republic

Other resources:
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In striving to live a flourishing life--whether as a person or a country--it requires answering the hard questions in truth. In MOJO Minute #90, we ask those hard questions of modern day China and why they have been allowed to host the 2022 Olympic games.

Key Points from the Episode:
2008's China is vastly different than 2022's China.

Four difficult questions that should have required answers before allowing China to continue to host these games.

Is the 2020 China Games a repeat of the 1936 N...

In MOJO Minute #89, we explore the origin story of the first marathon in Dean Karnazes, The Road to Sparta
Key Points from the Episode:
How a single lone runner saved western civilization

How far did he actually run to deliver the import message to the Spartans?

What are the physical false limits you put on yourself?

Other resources:
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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.

Other resources:
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MOJO Minute #87 takes us back to my first personal development book, the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson and we learn the Slight Edge habit fundamentals.

Key Points from the Episode:
2009 is when I started devouring books at an incredible rate and the main motivation for these MOJO Minutes.

Check out the 7 Slight Edge Habit fundies.

Slight Edge Habit fundie #5 is my favorite.

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In todays MOJO Minute, lets us gain some wisdom from Olympic Champion, Lanny Bassham from his book, With Winning In Mind where he describes 'Process is Primary.'

Key Points from the Episode:
95% of all winning is accomplished by only 5% of the participants

Winners are convinced they will finish first, the others hope to finish first.

Think of executing your mental and technical systems and not about winning. Process is primary.
Other resources:
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Mindset is the topic of todays MOJO Minute and we feature former Navy Seal David Goggins and his super-human memoir, Cant Hurt Me.

*please note David Goggins is not shy throwing around the f-bombs so be mindful if you are easily offended*
Key Points from the Episode:
One Warrior

What's the human being greatest potential?

Goggin's accountability mirror

Other resources:
Joe Rogan's interview with David Goggins
Goggins Youtube channel

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MOJO Minute #84 is a different episode. We step back and see what is an example of living a flourishing life.

Key Points from the Episode:
How does faith help shape character?

This Jewish basketball powerhouse leads the way in the integration of faith, hope and charity.

In Hebrew, the root word for victory is the same as eternity, how fitting!

Other resources:
Ari Berman, Yeshiva university president's Op-Ed in the WSJ

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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?

Other resources:
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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?

Other resources:
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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

Other resources:
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We continue, in this MOJO minute, to explore Deciding vs Wishing and how they are different with Scott Adams, the author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
Key Points from the Episode:
Preparation and Mindset are vital

What is Deciding vs Wishing

How I decided vs wished when creating these very MOJO Minutes

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"Goals are for losers!" ha ha. what a great saying! In this MOJO, we dig into this phrase from Scott Adams the author of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
Key Points from the Episode:
Why goals are for losers?

Systems vs Goals

When you have a system in place most often you passed your pre-conceived goal

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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

Other resources:
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