You don't need resolutions. You need habits. Go.

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• Wrapping up 2019

Wrapping up what happened this year -- and what an eventful year it was!

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• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

• Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation by Elkhonon Goldberg

• Feck Perfuction by James Victore

• Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

• Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko Willink

• Notes on Feck Perfection

• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller

• The War of Art, Turning Pro and Do the Work by Steven Pressfield

Nobody has ever put the mission of Better Humanhood so succinctly. Give a shit. Let's explore.

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Links:

• Whitney Cummings on Bert Kreischer's podcast

• JoshShear.com; Give a shit

Feck Perfuction by James Victore was one of my favorite books that I read in 2019 (and I probably read over five dozen). We look at some of my highlights.

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Links:

• Feck Perfuction by James Victore

• Steven Pressfield

• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

• The Five Second Rule by Mel Robbins

• JoshShear.com: Notes on Feck Perfuction

We all have things we remember from our childhoods that match up across generational cohorts. But what are some of the things you're nostalgic about that aren't shared memories?

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Links:

• Hood

• Murphy's Pop Stop closes

• Frankie & Johnnie

• JoshShear.com: Our unshared memories

Happy Thanksgiving! If you have some elementary school students in your life, they're probably making hand turkeys and dressing up as Pilgrims and American Indians. But how much of what we learned in school is true?

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Links:

• Country Living: Thanksgiving

• Wikipedia: Thanksgiving

• Wikipedia: The Reformation

• National Geographic: Thanksgiving

• Native Hope: What Thanksgiving means to Native Americans

• "The Real Story of Thanksgiving"

• JoshShear.com: Thanksgiving origin myth

Why do we celebrate birthdays, anyway?

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• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

• Fight for the Forgotten

• Shriners Hospitals for Children

• Pencils of Promise

• Charity: Water

• Patton Oswalt: You get like 20 birthdays

• JoshShear.com: Why do we celebrate birthdays?

Beyond faith, we actually agree on some myths that help society thrive.

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Links:

• Sapiens,

• The Dunbar number

• JoshShear.com: The myths we share

Our look into U.S. holidays continues with the history of Veterans Day.

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Links:

• Episode 20: Flag Day 2019

• Episode 17: Memorial Day 2019

• History Channel on Veterans Day

• Wikipedia on Veterans Day

• The differences between Veterans Day and Memorial Day

• JoshShear.com: Veterans Day

We continue our exploration of holidays with a look at Halloween and Day of the Dead.

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Links:

• Halloween by Robert Burns

• Doug Stanhope talking about his mother's suicide

• Japanese custom of sorting cremated remains with chopsticks

• Samhain

• Day of the Dead

• Coco

• Legend of the jack-o-lantern

• Jehova's Witness take on Halloween

• JoshShear.com: Origins of Halloween and Day of the Dead