Three-time Olympian Lolo Jones delivers a tough yet inspiring look into the strategies she has used to overcome immense obstacles on her way to becoming the number one women's hurdler in the world.

Lolo Jones' path to becoming a world champion and an Olympian began in childhood with a single mother who worked multiple jobs to support a family of six and a father who was serving time in prison. These early years instilled in Lolo an overcomer's mindset that gave her the strength she needed to rise above an unstable and impoverished background, to earn an economics degree at LSU, and then to establish herself as the best women's hurdler in the world.

In Over It, Lolo delivers a high-octane dose of no-BS encouragement, storytelling, humor, and practicality and exposes the obstacles that too often hold us back. With the same pluck and boldness that defines her life and career, Lolo teaches people how to face their challenges head-on and keep working to overcome them with strength. 

Even when the obstacles are large and we feel frustrated, overwhelmed, and ready to quit, we’ve got to keep fighting - full force, full speed. We've got to get over it.

OVER IT by Lolo Jones | Chapter 1

You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear. 

I  suggest that you use any fear surfacing to heal, grow and strengthen yourself. Hard times activate hidden wounds that can be remedied. Making you stronger, wiser and more loving when the pandemic ends.

Remember that terror is closer to triumph than complacency is. And that fear becomes faith, once you walk into it.

Fear Becomes Faith [Once You Walk into It]

I wish I had learned these potent ideas when I was twenty years old...

...I’ve embraced and integrated them now, yet not knowing them cost me a lot over the years.

2 Transformational Insights I Wish I'd Learned at 20

Dr. Jeremy DeSilva joined us for an interview on SoS 128. This week, in addition to a replay of his original interview, we hear audio excerpted from First Steps: How upright walking made us human by Jeremy DeSilva, read by Kaleo Griffith. Copyright 2021 by Jeremy DeSilva. Production Copyright 2021, HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. You can find First Steps here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/first-steps-jeremy-desilva
You can find out more about Dr. DeSilva, his lab, and his work here: anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/jeremy-desilva and on Twitter @desilva_jerry

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SoS 135- How Upright Walking Made Us Human with Dr. Jeremy DeSilva

Everyone has experienced the way deadlines can act as a double-edged sword: on the one hand, they force us to get stuff done; but on the other, they often push us to wait until the last minute to get to work, so that we do that work in a poorly executed, slapdash rush. Scientists call that latter dynamic “the deadline effect,” and my guest today has taken a field-tested dive into how to manage it, so that you can get the advantages of deadlines, without suffering from their downsides.
His name is Chrisopther Cox, and he’s the author of The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It’s the Last Minute—Before the Last Minute. We begin our conversation with how Chris’s experience as a magazine editor got him interested in deadlines and what studies have shown as to both their benefits and their pitfalls. Chris then unpacks ways to harness the former towards greater productivity in both your personal and professional life, including creating interim checkpoints, knowing how to set reasonable due dates, planning left to right rather than right to left, and using what he calls “soft opens with teeth.” Along the way, Chris explains these principles using a bunch of real world case studies, from the system a chef uses to open multiple Michelin 3-star restaurants to how the Telluride ski resort gets ready to open for the season. We end our conversation with what you can start doing today to take advantage of the power of deadlines in your own life.

The Art of Manliness

#728: Improve Your Productivity With the Power of Deadlines

Bella's Lullaby - Twilight

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5M EP.1041 | ต้นทุนของความทะเยอทะยาน คืออะไรและมีอะไรบ้าง?

I've been watching The John Wayne Gacy Tapes on Netflix, which features previously unheard recordings of the serial killer known as "The Killer Clown" who murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s. I wasn't able to finish it because I don't have that kind of stomach, but what jumped out at me listening to him was the way he talked about how much he loved power and what an easy time he had manipulating his way up the ladders of political influence.

Really makes you think about how many psychopaths who are just a little bit more functional must be in politics today, on all levels. Psychopaths who are deeply messed up inside but not quite so messed up that they enjoy strangling teenage boys to death after raping and torturing them. Or if they are that messed up they're clever enough to avoid getting caught. Or if they are that messed up and not clever enough to avoid getting caught, but their fetish for murder and suffering is satiated by something that's considered politically acceptable in our society, like war.

Reading by Tim Foley.

On Psychopathy, Power, Empire And Ego

As we hydroplane toward the brink of nuclear armageddon while Bono and the Edge play U2 songs in Kyiv, it's probably worth taking a moment to highlight the fact that this entire war could have been avoided if the US had simply pledged military protection for Zelensky against the far right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected to enact.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-couldve-prevented-this-war?s=w

The US Could've Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv From Nazis

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