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I sat down with the co-Founder 12 Labours CrossFit and 12 Labours Lions Team Captain. They placed 2nd place in 2016 against titans such as Rich Froning's team, CrossFit Mayhem Freedom. And 9th place at the CrossFit Games 2014 and 6th place in 2015. Team 12 Labours Lions, of 12 Labours CrossFit in Maryland, is a four-time CrossFit Games team with an all-time best finish of second place in 2016. That year, it was one of only three returning top-10 Games teams from 2015 (CrossFit Mayhem Freedom, CrossFit Solid) and just two from 2014 (CrossFit 808). A top-performing Mid Atlantic and Atlantic Regional team since 2010 with just two regional absences from 2012-2013, the team has been training together in part since 2010. In 2016, four of its six members were returning members of its 2015 Games team. Named for the 12 labors of Hercules, the team took its second-place finish in 2016 with two event wins and eight top-three event finishes.

Brené Brown is a University of Houston research professor who has spent decades studying shame and vulnerability.

For most of human civilization, men have hid behind the mask of masculinity, concealing any signs of shame and vulnerability because they believed that a man should never show weakness.

But it turns out that Brené found that vulnerability is a vital part of mental health, communication, and working relationships through her scientific study. Men are waking up and realizing this — even entrepreneurs like Lewis Howes have wrote books on it.

If you’re not familiar with the vulnerability, shame, and guilt movement, start out by checking our Brené’s TED talk, which has gotten millions of views:







“Vulnerability is not weakness. I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty … Vulnerability is our most accurat

One of my life goals is to read all the books written by billionaires. That’s a tall order considering there are over 150.

If you want a quick book to start with on the list, A Passion to Win by Sumner Redstone, is a good choice.

Here’s what I learned from the book…



If you prefer listening to reading, I recorded a podcast episode you can listen to on this topic:






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“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” -Benjamin Franklin

One common, frustrating theme I have found when talking to people who have mediocre lives is that they’re all excuse-generating machines.

Every time I try to give reasons that their obstacles are solvable and tactics to do so, they come up with a mediocre excuse so that they can remain where they are. I recently had an especially frustrating case of this recently with an Indian man I met who had trouble making friends.

After hearing about my own struggles with this, he came up to me and told me he had similar problems but he was over a decade older than me.

He also had insecurities with his race because most of the people he met were white and he thought he couldn’t relate to them.

But as I dove into the issue, my eagerness to help quickly turned into frustration as I discovered he was immovable as a rock with his beliefs about the world…

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Oh, the frustration and stress that comes with information overwhelm.

You feel like there’s so much to consume yet so little time.

How do you even begin to deal with all the articles, videos, books, and information out there?

I have felt this way many times before and it sucks. I feel overwhelmed because there is simply too much out there. I feel like I am missing out or not doing what I could be doing. I end up giving up because I can’t get to it all.

Today, I want to share with you some innovative strategies to deal with information overload.



You can listen to the audio version of this (with unmentioned bonus tips) through my podcast episode here:

1. You have the luxury and obligation to be choosy in this era

For centuries, useful information was a rare privilege. Those who were lucky enough got their hands on a single book over their lifetime. Then, the printing press was invented and books were available to the masses. An