PNTV: The Healthy Deviant by Pilar Gerasimo (#412)

Here are 5 of my favorite Big Ideas from The Healthy Deviant by Pilar Gerasimo. Hope you enjoy!

I’ve been eagerly awaiting for my dear friend Pilar Gerasimo to write a book that captures her wisdom on how to Optimize our lives and give the world all we’ve got. And... The wait is over! Pilar is one of the wisest people I know. Among many other things, she created Experience Life magazine (which currently reaches over 3 million people per year) and is the co-host of the Living Experiment podcast with Dallas Hartwig (co-founder of Whole30). The lead quote for this book perfectly captures the thesis of the book. It’s from Jiddu Krishnamurti. He tells us: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Yep. That’s about right. In a society in which the VAST majority of us are sick and tired and anxious and depressed and, well, blah... IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO THAT SICK SOCIETY. (Right?) Enter: The Healthy Deviant. This “Rule Breaker’s Guide"" is packed with Big Ideas on how we can ""Be Healthy in an Unhealthy World.”

[coachkyokushin]

"A healthy deviant is any person who willingly defies unhealthy norms and conventions in order to achieve a high level vitality, resilience and autonomy." Awesome!

[Marcosls]

Thanks for sharing this and other wisdom Brian and team!
In times of major "comformity" and the plethora of rules in every single professional and societal aspects your message today comes as a very important disclaimer! Push the stop, look and think!

[aparnaprakash]

Thank you for these . I started watching these during this lockdown and they hv helped me so much in becoming and striving to become a better person. Saving now to join the membership😀

[selfhelpchampion]

Thanks Brian, you will be my walking companion this evening ❤️🙏selfhelpchampion

[fellpscap]

We are all waiting for you to write a book with all these knowloge you got from those books

[judithscheepsma]

Mark Twain is buried in Elmira, NY just up the road from us. He spent his summers here because Libby his wife was born here. He wrote many books here.

[theminuteplanner]

Main thing i get from that? Permission slip and rallying cry :-)