Sublime

If the goal is to optimize, we shouldn’t be focused on doing more for the sake of doing more. Rather, we should be focused on being fully present for the pursuits and people that matter most to us.

So taking the experimental mindset, I decided to test out a new theory. First, I would start assuming I was good and had my heart in the right place, instead of a rickety monster that had to be held in check and put on a tight leash. Second, anything I did that was bad or wrong or unhealthy, I would just tell myself it was a layer of plaster on top

the emerging field of performance science is revealing that any kind of lasting success requires a solid base of health, well-being, and general life satisfaction. Without

would need to learn how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. This skill is every bit as helpful off the road as it is on it.

• Having the perfect workout.


• Selecting the optimal diet.


• Deploying a hyper-specific mindset and wellness protocol.

Someone is a good person not because they say they are, but because they take good actions. One does not magically get one’s act together—it is a matter of many individual choices. It’s a matter of getting up at the right time, making your bed, resisting shortcuts, investing in yourself, doing your work. And make no mistake: while the individual ac