1: Preventing or delaying disease is a fundamentally better approach than treating disease.

What’s in the way? 

Only our entire healthcare system.

Disease prevention “doesn’t really fit into the business model of our current healthcare system,” Dr. Peter Attia writes in Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.

“Health insurance companies won’t pay a doctor very much to tell a patient to change the way he eats,” he observes, … continue reading

1: That’s one of the questions Dr. Scott Conard and Vince Vince Poscente pose in their book Which Door?

The answer: Typically, we’d feel fine.

“As a young doctor, in practice for 7 years, I got a phone call one evening while eating dinner at home,” Scott recalls. “A shaking voice on the other end of the phone said, ‘Doctor, I just found John on the floor and he was … continue reading

1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.

Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.

This week, we’ve been exploring some of the powerful lessons from Steven Kotler’s wonderful book The Art of Impossible.

If we want to “chase the impossible” in our … continue reading

1: The answer: Yes.

It’s what scientists call “flow” or the flow state.

Flow is defined as “an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best,” Steven Kotler writes in his powerful book The Art of the Impossible.  

“More specifically, the term refers to those moments of rapt attention and total absorption when we get so focused on the task at hand that everything … continue reading

1: Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi discovered something fascinating.

The people who score the highest for overall well-being and life satisfaction are those with the most “flow” in their lives.

So, what exactly is flow?

Mihaly began studying high performance in the 1970s. He traveled “around the world asking tens of thousands of people about the times in their life when they felt their best and performed their best,” Steven Kotler writes … continue reading

1: Author Steven Kotler was on a quest. 

As a self-described “science guy,” he wanted to understand the “semi-mystical” experiences he was having while surfing.

Experiences that were literally bringing him back to life. At age 30, he contracted Lyme disease and was barely able to function for one hour a day.

Yesterday, we looked at the incredible recovery he experienced after he started surfing.

Steven wanted to decode … continue reading

1: Steven Kotler was ill. It was the end of the road.

“All I would be from this point forward was a burden to my family and friends,” he writes in The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer. 

“I had a sizable collection of barbiturates in the bathroom, a couple of bottles of whiskey in the kitchen. Suicide became a very real possibility. It was no longer a … continue reading

Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.

Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.

Eleanor Roosevelt once famously said, “Do something every day that scares you.”

This week in RiseWithDrew, I’ve been sharing some insights from Tim Keller and his powerful book Every Good … continue reading

1: When we reflect on the disasters and atrocities of the last 100 years, it is easy to be discouraged.

“It is more a mood than a coherent set of beliefs,” Tim Keller writes in Every Good Endeavor. “There is far more cynicism about all truth claims and plans for society—both older traditional ones and more modern, liberal ones,” he observes. 

“Movies and novels about the future in the … continue reading

1: Good question.

After all, “marriage can be the most intimate, the most satisfying, the most enduring, growth-producing of human relationships,” Stephen R. Covey writes in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. 

“It might seem natural and proper to be centered on one’s husband or wife.” 

And, being a parent can be the most rewarding of all of life’s experiences. It is “as an area of focus and … continue reading