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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+1: #530 Hagfish Are Pretty Freaky
Continuing our underwater theme for a moment longer, have you ever heard of hagfish? They’re pretty creepy. (I apologize in advance for the visual image here but I think it’s worth it…) Here…
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Mon 17 Sep 2018
+1: #525 Work or Play?
In our last +1, we talked about W.H. Auden’s (genius) quip that routine, in an intelligent person, is a sign of ambition. (I laugh with joy every time I type that.) Then we did a quick check i…
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Wed 12 Sep 2018
+1: #520 The $7 Trillion Mind-Hacking Industry
A couple +1s ago, while celebrating Yuval Noah Harari’s lack of a smartphone, I mentioned the fact that we don’t need to become smashing Luddites in response to the tsunami of technology that hamme…
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Fri 07 Sep 2018
+1: #515 Running Experiments
In our last +1, we talked about Professor Harari’s two world maps—one before The Scientific Revolution that was all filled in (including areas they knew NOTHING about) and one after that had pl…
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Sun 02 Sep 2018
+1: #510 Demonstration vs. Instruction
Wallace D. Wattles was an old-school Philosopher-Optimizer who wrote The Science of Getting Rich. He also wrote a little book called The Science of Being Great. (Both of those titles are, of course…
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Tue 28 Aug 2018
+1: #505 Solvitur Ambulando
Today we’re going to talk about walking. Walking is awesome. In fact, it’s so old-school epically awesome in helping thinkers think that our ancient friends even had a Latin phrase to capture its …
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Thu 23 Aug 2018
+1: #500 Thrown a Perfect Game Lately?
In our last +1, we talked about the fact that batting .300 over the course of your Major League Baseball career gets you in the Hall of Fame. Today we’re going to continue the baseball metaphor. …
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Sat 18 Aug 2018
+1: #495 Conquering Hero vs. Suffering Martyr
In our last +1, we talked about the science of daydreaming. Quick recap: Stay out of the “poor attention control” and “guilty-dysphoric” realms and in the “positive-constructive” mode. Here’…
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Mon 13 Aug 2018
+1: #485 The Rules of Breathing
In our last couple +1s, we’ve talked about your breathing. If you haven’t checked out the full Optimal Breathing 101 master class yet, you might dig it. For now, how about a quick look at the THR…
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Fri 03 Aug 2018
Conquering Digital Addiction 101 (Intro)
Technology is, obviously, awesome. We’ve been using “tech” tools for 2.5 million years since our protohuman ancestors first picked up a stone and used it as a tool. 1.8 million years ago, “we” figu…
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Sun 29 Jul 2018
+1: #480 Put Your Name on a Sheet
Since our time with George Leonard exploring his ideas on Mastery, I’ve been thinking about him a lot. I realized that I forgot to share another one of my favorite Ideas from his great little boo…
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Sun 29 Jul 2018
Optimal Breathing 101 (Intro)
Breathing. It’s easy to take for granted but when you stop to think about it, it quickly becomes obvious just how powerful it is. Get this: You can live for weeks without food and days without water …
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Fri 27 Jul 2018
+1: #475 Want Recognition?
Continuing our good times with Confucius, here’s one of the gems from his Analects that has tattooed itself on my brain since I read it a decade ago. “The Master said, He does not mind not being …
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Tue 24 Jul 2018
+1: #470 How to Win the Olympic Games
I can’t resist. One more +1 on Aristotle. So… The Olympic Games started in Olympia (not too far outside of Athens) in 776 BC. A few centuries later, Aristotle told us that you can’t just SHOW…
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Thu 19 Jul 2018
+1: #465 Virtuous Activity of the Soul
In our last +1, we talked about Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and the fact that his word for “happiness” was VERY different than our word. Eudaimonia, as we discussed, literally means “g…
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Sat 14 Jul 2018
+1: #460 Delete THAT App
In our last +1, we talked about the fact that 25 minutes every day = 2 YEARS of your life. Did you figure out how you’re wasting time and make some progress eliminating that time wasting activity…
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Mon 09 Jul 2018
+1: #455 The Master
George Leonard was an aikido master who wrote a great little book called Mastery. It’s a tiny little book packed with a ton of wisdom. I highly recommend it. There’s one particular passage t…
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Wed 04 Jul 2018
+1: #450 Food Poisons Part 2
In our last +1, we talked about Rule #1 of Nutrition. You remember what it was? Basic idea: It’s not what you start eating that has the most positive impact. It’s what you STOP eating. There are…
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Fri 29 Jun 2018
+1: #445 Sentence Completions
Nathaniel Branden was a fascinating guy. As a teenager he wrote a fan letter to Ayn Rand—which she ignored. Then he wrote another letter a little later which led to an intimate relationship and coll…
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Sun 24 Jun 2018
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