Physical health unlocks mental performance

Somatic therapy focuses on physical sensations and body responses rather than just talking. Mobilization reflex refers to the body's natural stress-response cycle that needs to complete.

I'm not a big fan of talk therapy alone or at least therapy that doesn't have a somatic or body-based component. What we need to do is create a certain sense of safety to kind of go into those buffered emotional responses and feel them all the way through and allow that mobilization reflex to complete.

I think being able to do five pull-ups taught me I can do hard things in this really narrow, measurable way, which gave me confidence in other aspects of my life.

Seven minutes of gratitude with another person every day. Call mom, dad, sister, brother, business partner, friend, and every day just express gratitude back and forth for seven minutes, coming from the feeling, not from the thought. It'll change your life dramatically really quickly.

Equanimity is the most important skill I've developed across my entire life. It means mental calmness, composure, evenness of temper, especially in crazy, stressful situations. It's the ability to remain un-rattled in the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

Product leadership is the type of role where if you are not in control of the voices in your head, they will eat you alive.