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You aspire to be courageous in your career and in your life. You are at your happiest when you are fully challenged, living an adventure, not driven by fear. But you struggle - and sometimes avoid - the difficult situations you face in your life. At the Last 8% Morning, we understand this challenge and have spent years developing skills to help you use your most difficult situations as opportunities to transform so you can live more courageously, with less regret, and have the impact you want to have in the world.The Last 8% Morning podcast gives you the insights and skills to manage your emotions so you can face and and not avoid your most difficult situations. In the Last 8% Morning, Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry, co-founder of the Institute for Health and Human Potential and NY Times best-selling author of Performing Under Pressure, personally guides you through a morning routine which integrates Movement (walking) + Mindfulness + Mental training exercises. Designed over the last 24 years working with Olympic athletes, NFL and NBA teams, Navy Seals and individuals in organizations around the world, we are now making this resource available to you in this form. Let’s walk! #mindfulness #emotionalintelligence #meditation #movement #fitness #health #eq #peopleskills #work from home #covidstress

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Building Kindness as a Superpower, Episode 3 Reissue

January 14, 2021 • Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry, Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Expert • Season 2 • Episode 30

Do you want to be more kind in your life but are not sure how to do it?

As you know if you have been listening to this series, kindness is a muscle, that you can grow, that become a default behavior of yours , can become a new neuropathway.

In this episode, the third in our series on Building Kindness as a Superpower, we look at the key to unlocking kindness so that we can have the kind of life, relationship and impact on the world we want to have.

Let’s walk!

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough, to disarm all hostility.”

U.S. poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

Dalai Lama

“Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.”

Nobel Laureate and the father of Neuroscience

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”

Eric Hoffer

If you're new to the Last 8% Morning, over the course of 15 minutes we integrate movement, mindfulness, and mental training exercises. Why? So we can build the skills necessary to be our best in our more difficult moments, what we call the Last 8%. What are these skills? These are skills of emotional intelligence. Why? We do this because it is emotion that gets in our way.

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As always, the work continues:
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Reading List:
Desmond Cole, The Skin We're In
Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives

Ibram X Kendi's book, How to Be Anti-Racist
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