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and excerpt from the book Master Your Code, the Art, Wisdom, and Science of leading an extraordinary

life by Darren J. Gold and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Tuesday, welcome back to Optimal Living

Daily of the OLD podcast, where I read to you from some of the best blogs I can find and get

permission from covering self-help, minimalism, productivity, anything that I think is worth

your time. Sometimes book excerpts too, like today. I'll tell you more about today's author

right after the reading, so for now let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.

An excerpt from the book Master Your Code, the Art, Wisdom, and Science of leading an extraordinary

life by Darren J. Gold. One of my favorite stories that I like to tell, particularly when I am

encouraging leaders to notice and question their beliefs, is the story of Roger Bannister,

the man famous for breaking the imaginary four-minute mile barrier. For centuries, runners had been

attempting to run a mile in under four minutes. In the 1950s, the quest to break the barrier took

on renewed importance, and a number of famous runners publicly and unsuccessfully attempted the feat.

Many of the newspapers of the day began to question whether humans would ever be able to run a sub

four-minute mile. Then in 1954, Bannister broke through the imaginary barrier running the mile in

three minutes and 59.4 seconds. An amazing feat for sure. But here's what's really interesting.

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