You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson
You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson features the best big ideas from life-changing books and practical tools to help you move from Theory to Practice to Mastery and flourish in Energy, Work, and Love. Get more wisdom in less time so you can activate your best, every day—so that we can change the world, one person at a time, together, starting with you and me and us, today! (Learn more about Heroic Public Benefit Corporation at https://heroic.us)
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- 2015 - 2025
+1: #1020 Learning Cycles
In our last +1, we talked about the PM ritual Pythagoras came up with 2,500 years ago (!) that the Stoics liked to follow:
"Allow not sleep to close your wearied eyes,
Until you have reckoned …
00:06:19 |
Mon 20 Jan 2020
+1: #1015 It’s Day 1
In our last +1, we had fun chatting about the diploma we give to our Optimize Coaches. It so perfectly captures the underlying purpose of all of our work together that I’d like to share it again. …
00:04:16 |
Wed 15 Jan 2020
+1: #1010 Virtue Management
Last night as I was falling asleep, I was reflecting on the wonderful time I spent with a dear friend who came up to Ojai for a hike to chat about his next hero’s journey. We talked about some of…
00:04:02 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
+1: #1005 Thoughts + Heartbeats
Emily Fletcher was a Broadway performer living the dream. Only… Her hair was graying at 27, she was always stressed and had chronic insomnia. One of her fellow Broadway performers was always…
00:07:34 |
Sun 05 Jan 2020
+1: #1000 The Optimize +1 Hall of Fame
This is Optimize +1 #1,000. I don’t really know how to best start this one other than by saying: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Seriously. I am so honored to be a part of your life—wheth…
00:06:55 |
Tue 31 Dec 2019
+1: #995 10 Spartan Core Virtues
In our last +1, we hung out with my two favorite Joes: Scholar of the Hero’s Journey (and Grandpa in my spiritual family tree) Joseph Campbell, and gritty heroic exemplar (and soul brother), Joe …
00:04:53 |
Thu 26 Dec 2019
+1: #990 The Passion Paradox
Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness have written a couple great books together. First, they gave us Peak Performance. Then The Passion Paradox. Today we’re going to talk about one of the central the…
00:04:51 |
Sat 21 Dec 2019
+1: #985 Operating at the Highest Level
In our last +1, we did our best Boss impersonation as we reinterpreted our sweaty palms and racing hearts as a sign we’re EXCITED and READY TO GO rather than as a sign that something’s wrong. When…
00:03:06 |
Mon 16 Dec 2019
+1: #980 The Master Fails More Times
A few +1s ago, we had fun chatting about the starting and finish lines of my first business, eteamz. I mentioned that it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows and we briefly discussed the fact that I’…
00:03:27 |
Wed 11 Dec 2019
+1: #975 The Tenth of an Inch
We talk a lot about the futility of arguing with reality. As Byron Katie so perfectly says, “When I argue with reality I lose. But only 100% of the time.” (Hah.) Today we’re going to take an…
00:02:57 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
+1: #965 Asking for Qualities
In our last +1, we spent some time with Todd Herman, Batman, Dora the Explorer and YOUR most heroic self. Today we’re going to connect all that goodness to wisdom from the classic peak-performance…
00:03:48 |
Tue 26 Nov 2019
+1: #960 Capturing a Richer Mindset
In our last +1, we revisited Ellen Langer at her “Psychology of Possibility” lab at Harvard to learn that words matter. As you may recall, simply priming people with words associated with old a…
00:03:29 |
Thu 21 Nov 2019
+1: #955 Falling on Your Butt
Geoff Colvin’s Talent Is Overrated is a great book. It falls into the “Effort Counts Twice” / Deliberate Practice bucket of how to reach our Peak via Grit, etc. It’s packed with great stories ab…
00:05:22 |
Sat 16 Nov 2019
+1: #950 Natural Born Heroes
The other day I found myself re-reading our Notes on Christopher McDougall’s great book Natural Born Heroes. Although we’ve talked (many times) about the fact that the ancient word for hero l…
01:10:39 |
Mon 11 Nov 2019
+1: #945 Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.
As we’ve discussed, a mantra is literally “a tool of the mind.” By repeating a mantra over and over and over again (spiritual teachers say!), it takes hold in our subconscious and subtly sh…
01:10:39 |
Wed 06 Nov 2019
+1: #940 Stress Curfews
Not too long ago, we talked about Sleep Curfews. Five of them, to be precise. One for Caffeine. Another for Exercise. Plus Eating. Plus Screens. Plus Work. As you may recall, Caffeine …
00:03:17 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
Optimize Interview: The Power of Agency with Paul Napper & Anthony Rao
Agency. It’s one of my favorite words and psychological concepts (and a cornerstone of our Optimize Coach program). So, when I saw this book I immediately got it and read it and here we are. Paul Na…
00:33:06 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
+1: #935 The Eternal Feast
In our last +1, we talked about A World Without Heroes and the fact that “A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right t…
00:03:07 |
Sun 27 Oct 2019
+1: #930 Micro Prospectus
Not too long ago we talked about the fact that the word prosperity literally means “to go forward with hope.” Then, as you may recall, I challenged us to take some time to create a prospectu…
00:03:15 |
Tue 22 Oct 2019
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