Welcome guys and gals to the Mantox podcast. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of Man Talks.

On this week's midweek mini episode, we are going to kick the year off right. So it is the beginning of 2018.

I don't know if you got my email, if you subscribe to the Mantox email list or my personal email list, but I sent out 33 lessons from 2017.

And today I'm going to go through a couple of them.

And I'm going to share my personal habit and routine of how I closed out, how I closed

out 2017 and how I brought in 2018. So it'll be a bit of a quick episode.

So in case you didn't sign up to the email list, here are the 33 connect the dot peaks and

lessons from my 2017 that I hope help you open some new doors, sort of new heights,

and believe in yourself just a little bit deeper than

before. So this is a list that I accumulated it over the year. I really take some time at the end of

every year to look at what my core lessons are. And this was a big one. Usually it's not 33,

but for whatever reason, actually, now that I think about it, I was 33 last year. So maybe

there's the correlation. Maybe this year it'll be 34. I don't know. But anyway, there was 33 lessons

from last year. It was a big one. And the reason why I think this is important is because of something

that positive psychologists call the peak end rule.

Peak, as in the peak of a mountain, end as in the end of a movie, rule, as in the rules

your parents had.

So this is a psychological rule that states that people judge an experience largely based

on how they feel at its peak, i.e. the most intense point, and at the end, rather than based

on the total sum or average of every moment of the experience. And so what this means is that we

judge an entire year, basically, based on the peak of the year. So what we see, what we saw and deemed to be

the most intense part of it and on how we end it. Now, this is interesting because a lot of

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