You're here because you understand that greater mental clarity and physical energy are the key to being a better partner, lover, parent, son or daughter, earning more money, living a more satisfying life full of purpose and meaning, and being a better human being. You've also probably tried to make changes in your life and you've come up short, and even when short-term changes made you feel better, you haven't been able to sustain them over time.  You are not alone.

I built Simple+Optimum because I've been in your shoes.  My name is Vladislav Davidzon and I spent much of my life in an intense mental fog, wondering why everyone around me always seemed to have exponentially more energy, and why I was constantly struggling with horrible acne. My energy levels were constantly fluctuating, my emotional disciple was lacking, and I was almost constantly fatigued.  I knew more was possible for my life, so I began what is now a decade-long process of hacking my habits around nutrition, exercise, nature connection, and most importantly, the link between excess inflammation and health.  

Today I run five miles every single day, easily crank out 100 pull-ups, 200 pushups and 300 squats in half an hour, and my mind hasn't ever been more clear.  Essentially, my life rapidly changed after I decided I've had enough and that what I had just wasn't going to be "it" for my life, and chose to decisively root myself in discipline, working with my most basic psychology, systemically figuring out ways to hack the challenges that were holding me back.  In the process, I also learned that all real meaning and purpose in life only comes from serving people and planet, and I've chosen to build Simple+Optimum to do precisely that.   I now want so share with you what I've learned.

​1) Self-respect is required foundation for a healthy and coherent life. It is also the inception point to falling madly in love with the world. The way we treat ourselves is exactly the same way we will treat everything and everyone in our lives. It is our moral responsibility to learn to thrive because when the people thrive, the planet will thrive with us. Self-respect starts with healthy core routines, because trust in yourself starts with doing small things with great consistency. The private victories must happen before any public victories can happen since we can never truly trust others until we trust ourselves.
2) Emotional stability and coherency come from correct nutrition and consistent optimum living habits resulting in reduced inflammation and consistent blood sugar levels. It is entirely unreasonable to expect to feel good while eating shit food, going to bed at 3 am, not getting sufficient exercise and abusing your body with toxic poisons like alcohol. You can, however, create healthy routines, and you can climb your way out of the hell that is the "average" life.

3) Disease is always either caused by or aggravated by excessive inflammation. Reducing inflammation is the key to health. Gut health, reduction in toxin intake, consistent and stable blood sugar levels, proper nutrition, regular intermittent fasting, and consistent sleep are the keys to reducing inflammation. When you remove the inflammation, you allow your body to bring itself back into balance.  With the five core routines, we take care of the simple in order to allow nature to take care of the complicated and the complex, allowing our bodies to come into balance, and thus health.
4) The elephant in every room is trauma.  The fundamental intent of this work is the emergence of a stunningly beautiful and thriving culture without the distress of trauma, which is a completely natural response of the human animal to extreme stress, and which can only be healed through the body (somatics), combined with coherent nutrition (food as medicine), in deep relationship with nature (deep ecology and eco-psychology), intervowen within a strong and vibrant social fabric (intentional community). 

5) Intentionally chosen story of relationship and natural balance. A thriving culture requires that we be clear that our perceptional reality is the sum of our stories, and we must ground those stories in relationship with nature and community, reclaiming our lives, healing ourselves, healing our world, and using the tools of emotional discipline (self-regulation) as an internalized resource for continuous emotional healing and resiliency. Since the physical imprint of depression is inflammation caused by trauma, the systemic reduction of inflammation enables the natural balance of the human body to integrate and thus heal. There are no broken or evil people, only systemically unmet basic needs. Radical embodied presence, in deep relationship with all life is our answer
6) Keep it simple and always focus on the root cause. Numbing symptoms without treating root causes, which is what our entire allopathic mainstream medical system is designed to do, creates much larger problems by allowing the root causes to continue to deteriorate. Everything is interconnected, health is the natural balance of life, and nature always seeks to restore balance, and our bodies always seek a state of homeostasis. By consistently simplifying our lives and our nutritional intake, we avoid paralysis by analysis and are able to prioritize and execute actions that restore health. Simplicity enables complexity.

The Thrive Self-Paced Online Course provides you with everything you need to put your life on an upward spiral of personal growth by building habit routines that cause you to make progress every day towards becoming your best self.  Whether it's in deepening your nature connection, cleaning up your diet, reducing stress, improving sleep or a variety of other life quality metrics, this course will help you make consistent progress through the use of cutting-edge habit psychology.  

Accountability is incredibly important when making big changes in your life, but even more important is a community of people who share your desires and values.  Our global Community of Practice is designed to provide you with the support you need through an online forum, and if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, in-person meetup-style gatherings.  As we build sufficient density of participants in different locations to uphold the momentum, we will also launch 

The program is a combination of three components:
1) Online Course of just over ten hours of content.
2) Coaching Program where you can ask questions of our coaches through regular topic-specific webinars.
3) Global Community of Practice, an online forum where you can correspond with people just like yourself working to improve their lives and become their best selves through this curriculum with you.  

The online course consists of over 10 hours of lectures, which we deliver in four different formats to accommodate the full range of learning styles and allow you to consume the materials in the way that best fits your current lifestyle:
1) animated video lectures
2) audio-only version of the lectures
3) printed 3-ring binder manual
4) USB key with the audio lectures and manual