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: #805 The Alchemist Says
Have you ever read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho? It’s amazing. I’ve read it a bunch of times. Guess how many copies the book has sold since Paulo wrote it over 30 years ago… 65 MILLION! (…
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Wed 19 Jun 2019
+1: #800 Building Agency: Step #3
In our last couple +1s, we’ve had fun (at least I have!) briefly chatting about the first two steps Paul Napper and Anthony Rao encourage us to take in pursuit of cultivating our Agency such that l…
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Fri 14 Jun 2019
+1: #795 Agency, Agency, Agency
In our last little flurry of +1s, we had some fun with Mel Robbins’s 5 Second Rule. Have you tried it out yet? 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… - GO!!! That might be THE most elegantly efficient Tool we’ve di…
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Sun 09 Jun 2019
+1: #790 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…
In our last +1, we talked about our new Optimus launch code: "5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Now what needs to be done?” Although I didn’t make the second part of the little launch mantra explicit, we connecte…
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Tue 04 Jun 2019
+1: #785 WD-Optimizing40
A couple +1s ago, we hung out with a world-class Ferrari pit stop crew and took a moment to celebrate all the people in OUR pit stop crews while committing to stepping up our pit crew games for those…
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Thu 30 May 2019
+1: #780 The Greatest Predictor of Anxiety
Way back in the early days of our +1 Optimizing together, we talked about the fact that our limbic systems evolved to deal with a single lion roaring at us at a time. As we said in that little c…
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Sat 25 May 2019
+1: #775 Embracing the Mess
In our last couple +1s, we talked about the art and science of lining up our dominoes in one neat and shiny staircase to moon-heaven. It all sounds so nice and easy when it’s mapped out like that…
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Mon 20 May 2019
+1: #770 Perpetual Optimism
The other day I headed to Google to look up the meaning of the phrase “force multiplier.” Short story: When we initially launched our Optimize Coach certification program, I said that I believed…
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Wed 15 May 2019
+1: #765 Your Idiosyncratic Dharma
In our last couple +1s, we’ve had fun exploring some wisdom gems from my recent PhilosophersNotes binge-athon. Today we’re going to talk about another great Idea from another great Note. This one’…
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Fri 10 May 2019
+1: #750 Food Rule #57
In our last +1, we explored the relationship between our food rotting and us rotting. Recall: The longer the shelf life of the food we eat, the shorter our lives will be! That wisdom was from Mich…
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Thu 25 Apr 2019
+1: #745 Sleep: The Miracle Drug!
Why We Sleep is a life-changing kinda book. We’re going to spend a few more days mining a few more of the many gems from Matthew Walker’s masterpiece. Today we’re going to flip open our virtua…
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Sat 20 Apr 2019
+1: #740 To Read on an iPad at Night
In our Optimize Coach certification program, we kick the party off by establishing the game we’re playing in Module I: Eudaimon-ology in which we connect ancient wisdom (Aristotle!) to modern sci…
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Mon 15 Apr 2019
Lead Yourself First 101
Mike Erwin joins us as a guest teacher for this class! CEO of The Character Center, co-founder of the Positivity Project, and co-author of the book Lead Yourself First, Mike is passionate about inspi…
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Fri 12 Apr 2019
+1: #735 Grow Lights
In our last +1, we did some severe pruning with Steve Chandler and Ralph Waldo Emerson. (How’d that go for you? More specifically: What went for you?) Today we’re going to spend some more time…
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Wed 10 Apr 2019
+1: #725 Your Marching Orders
In our last +1, we had some fun soaking our minds in some epic “To Dare or Not to Dare” wisdom. We kicked that party off with a Søren Kierkegaard gem. This one: “To dare is to lose one’s footi…
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Sun 31 Mar 2019
+1: #720 Broken Monitors
In our last +1 we talked about the fact that, as per legendary tough guy Vince Lombardi, “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” Then we operationalized a super-simple antidote to cowardice via a su…
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Tue 26 Mar 2019
Genius 101 (Intro)
Michael J. Gelb is the world’s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated lear…
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Sat 23 Mar 2019
+1: #715 Ambi vs. Heroic Valence
Continuing our time with my dear friend Katherine Collins, let’s talk about another micro-moment of Divine wisdom from our recent chat. Quick context. As you know if you’ve been following along…
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Thu 21 Mar 2019
+1: #710 Virtue Mantras
In our last couple +1s, we talked about the 11 virtues that show up on our shiny new Optimus medallions and make an appearance in our Optimus meditation. Wisdom + Arete + Confidence + Purpose + Se…
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Sat 16 Mar 2019
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