Welcome to Mindful Monday!

BOGO -- Buy One, Get One. We've never done this before, but thought we'd try something new. If you pre-order a copy of The Price of Becoming, we'll send you an additional copy for free. After you buy the book (honor system. No need to share your receipt), then CLICK THIS LINK, fill out a short form with the place you want the book sent. And we'll ship it. Also, if you want to see all the cool pre-order bonuses we've set up for you, CLICK HERE.

Here are some things from this week...

• Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf is on The Learning Leader Show
• YOU should run a book club (We'll help you do it)
• How to time travel
• What makes a dream job
• Some wise words about tension from Austin Kleon

#695: Andy Stumpf - What You Allow In Your Presence Is Your Standard

​Andy Stumpf is a retired Navy SEAL who spent 17 years on active duty, including assignments with one of the most elite special operations units in the U.S. military. He's a NYT bestselling author of Drownproof: Eight Life Lessons to Keep Your Head Above Water. We discuss Leadership Lessons From SEAL Team Six, Discipline vs. Motivation, Team Guy vs. Navy SEAL, High Standards, and How To Be Drownproof. You can also watch our conversation on YouTube.​

Run a Book Club For The Price of Becoming​

Book clubs are awesome because they help build community around a set of ideas. They create great dialogue. And there is power in learning useful and entertaining things together. Because of that, we have built a guide to run a The Price of Becoming book club. If you'd like to run a The Price of Becoming book club at your workplace or in your community, let me know, and I'll send you the guide.

How To Time Travel

Brian Chesky once met a traveler named Charlie. He walked up to him and said something Brian will never forget. He said, “Brian, I travel because it makes my life seem longer.” Brian was confused. He asked him to explain. “When I am on my deathbed, I want to look back at my life and have all these vivid memories. I want them to be full and different every single day.” Repetition doesn’t create memories. New experiences do. Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new. Of course, it turns out time slows down the most during life-threatening experiences. CLICK HERE to read more.

What Makes a Dream Job? Here's What The Evidence Says...

We all want to find a dream job that’s enjoyable and meaningful, but what does that actually mean? At 80,000 Hours, they reviewed 3 decades of research into what makes for a satisfying career, drawing on hundreds of studies... They found five key ingredients of a dream job.​

Wise Words

"I don’t think you can resolve a tension. You can only find a proper amount of tension. I’m a guitar player, so I think of tension in terms of a guitar string: If you tune it up too much, the string is gonna snap. But if you don’t wind the string tight enough, it’ll just buzz. Too much or too little tension and there’s no music." - Austin Kleon​

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