Brian Johnson walks through a concrete exercise: write down a time you felt on fire, note what you were doing (eating, moving, sleeping, connecting) and what you weren't. Compare that to now, pick one habit to start and one to stop, then do it immediately.
How do you use challenges to get stronger? The short answer to that question: you need to know who you are when you're at your best. I always do. Anytime I give a keynote, come in and talk about antifragility, I always have them do this exercise. Bust out a piece of paper and I want you to think about you when you're at your best in the past. Again, think back right now to a time in your life where you were just on fire. What were you doing? And very importantly, what were you not doing? You were eating, moving, sleeping a certain way, I would guess, and you were connected to your loved ones. Most importantly, what were you not doing? The fastest way to change your life is to stop doing the things that you know don't work for you. Identify who you were at your, at your best in the past. Then look at your current life and think about one thing that you need to start doing and one thing that you need to stop doing, and start doing those things and stop doing those things now.
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