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Aug. 18, 2022

MM#154--Hard To Do But Not Impossible

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 l...

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Aug. 2, 2022

MM#149--Miracle-Gro For Your Brain

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 shar...

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July 28, 2022

MM#148--Man, Im So Stressed!

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 ...

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July 21, 2022

MM#146--The Battle of Two Wolves

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....

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Nov. 18, 2021

MM#63--Learned Optimism

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 movem...

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July 29, 2021

MM#29--Feelings pt. 1--Personal Cheerleader

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 (affi...

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May 20, 2021

MM#7--Functional Optimism + the Obstacle is the Way = A Flourishing Life

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. *links below could be affiliate links* Key points: The Big Picture by Tony...

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