Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Here are 5 of my favorite Big Ideas from You Are Special by Fred Rogers. Hope you enjoy! I got this book after watching the wonderful (!) documentary on Mister Rogers called Won't You Be My Neighbor? It's a collection of wisdom gems from various sources-a quick-reading portal into Mister Rogers' brain that has an amazingly calming, uplifting effect. (At least it did for me.) Simply reading his words seemed to elevate my consciousness and make me a kinder, more patient person. Big Ideas we explore include: Be the best at whatever you are, our #1 Job in life (hint: Encourage others!!), I Like You (just the way you are), being a living example, Mister Rogers' creativity (hello, torture!), perfect parents/kids? (nope!), and the gap (the essence of human creativity). Get You Are Special on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140235140 Learn more about Fred Rogers: https://www.optimize.me/authors/fred-rogers/ ► RELATED RESOURCES: Big Idea 1: BE THE BEST YOU - +1: Envy: The Ulcer of the Soul | Socrates Says (And Science Agrees) (#852) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/envy-the-ulcer-of-the-soul/ - +1: The Comparison Game | You Will Always Lose It (Here's Why) (#855) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/the-comparison-game/ - +1: Sweeping Streets with Martin Luther King | Like Shakespeare, Beethoven and Michelangelo (#492) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/sweeping-streets-with-martin-luther-king/ Big Idea 2: OUR JOB IN LIFE - +1: Encourage | To Inspire with Hope, Courage and Confidence (#721) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/encourage/ - Admiral William McRaven → https://www.optimize.me/authors/admiral-william-h-mcraven/ Big Idea 3: "I LIKE YOU." - +1: I Like You | Just the Way You Are (#869) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/i-like-you/ - Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood in black and white → https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2r4wun Big Idea 4: TORTURES - Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Documentary) → https://www.focusfeatures.com/wont-you-be-my-neighbor/ Big Idea 5: LIVING EXAMPLE - PN: Your Life is Your Message by Eknath Easwaran → https://www.optimize.me/philosophers-notes/your-life-is-your-message-eknath-easwaran/ - +1: Gandhi and Sugar | And You and… _______________ (#408) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/gandhi-and-sugar/ - +1: There Are No Perfect People | And… Newsflash: You Will Not Be the First (#146) → https://www.optimize.me/plus-one/there-are-no-perfect-people/ ► FREE 14-DAY TRIAL: Get the PhilosophersNote on The World According to Mister Rogers and 600+ other books by starting a Free 14-Day trial membership to Optimize: https://www.optimize.me/trial/ ► MORE GOODNESS: - Get the Optimize App for iPhone & iPad: https://www.optimize.me/apps/ - Get the Optimize App for Android: https://www.optimize.me/apps/ - Subscribe to the Optimize Podcast: https://optimize.me/podcast/ - Follow Optimize on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BriantheOptimizer/ - Follow Optimize on Instagram: https://instagram.com/optimize.me/

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