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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- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
+1: #440 Exercise vs. Zoloft
We’ve talked about how exercise is kinda like taking a little bit of Ritalin and a little bit of Prozac, but somehow we’ve gotten this far into our +1 series without talking about the fact that exer…
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Tue 19 Jun 2018
+1: #435 Other Image 101
In Self-Image 101, we talked about how to create the most heroically awesome version of yourself by integrating the “Optimus” you and the “en*theos” you into the “Hērōs” you. We also talked …
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Thu 14 Jun 2018
+1: #430 Chewing on 100k Words Per Day
Here's another little gem from Dan Pink’s To Sell Is Human. (The man is a brilliant writer and a treasure-trove of goodness.) He tells us that, according to research from McKinsey: “the typic…
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Sat 09 Jun 2018
+1: #425 It’s Always Hard
Emerson is learning how to read and I’m the lucky guy who gets to teach him. The other day Emerson wrote his first word: “mom.” Then he busted out “dad.” Then he was able to write his name by …
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Mon 04 Jun 2018
+1: #420 WOOPy WOOP!
Yesterday we reviewed our Motivation Equation. I hope you took the time to hang out with your #1 Wildly Important Goal and run it through the little magical formula. And, if not: Pardon the soapb…
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Wed 30 May 2018
+1: #415 Your Grand Purpose
One of the themes we come back to again and again is the basic idea of loving what is — whether that’s via Byron Katie’s wisdom or the Stoics or the Serenity Prayer. Here’s another take on it…
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Fri 25 May 2018
+1 #410 Command & (/or) Obey
In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche tells us: “He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.” How epic …
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Sun 20 May 2018
+1: #422 Levity + Gravity = Buoyancy
Dan Pink tells us that To Sell Is Human. Although only 1 in 9 Americans is technically in sales, he says that the other 8 in 9 spend a ton of their time in “non-sales selling.” In fact, the r…
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Wed 02 May 2018
+1: #390 Cancer’s Achilles: How to Exploit
In our last +1, we talked about our 80/20 180 phase in which we implemented a number of high-leverage lifestyle changes. After that stabilization and Optimizing process, we went deep into what res…
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Mon 30 Apr 2018
Public Speaking 101 (Intro)
This is an introduction to Public Speaking 101. Get the workbook + watch the full class here: https://www.optimize.me/public-speaking
We’ve had a lot of people ask for a class on Public Speaking. It …
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Sat 28 Apr 2018
+1: #385 Two Theories on the Origins of Cancer
So, on one hand, as per our last +1, science shows that genes play a surprisingly small role in the cause of cancer. Yet… Guess where nearly all of that $100 billion of research money has has b…
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Wed 25 Apr 2018
Cooking 101 (Intro)
What You Can Do on a Daily Basis to Optimize Your Nutrition in an Easy and Practical Way.
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Sat 21 Apr 2018
+1: #380 Seneca Says: Be Harsh with Yourself at Times
In our last couple +1s, we had some fun at the hospital with our Stoic friends Seneca and Epictetus. Recall Epictetus’ wisdom that sometimes good philosophy feels more like a trip to the hospital…
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Fri 20 Apr 2018
+1: #375 You, a Farmer and His Horse
Once upon a time in a land far away, there was an old farmer. This man had a horse. Then, one day, his horse ran away. All the neighbors said, “Gah!! That’s such a bummer. What bad luck.” …
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Sun 15 Apr 2018
+1: #370 Mistake-Learner’s High
In our last +1, we talked about Phil Stutz’ great phrase: “Endlessly evolving process.” Phil likes to draw upward spiraling loops to describe the flow of evolving into the best version of ourselv…
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Tue 10 Apr 2018
+1: #365 Fingers and Lectures
Please extend your pointer finger and shake it as if you’re lecturing someone — saying something like, “You shouldn’t do this, this and this! Do that, that and that!” Thank you. Now, look at y…
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Thu 05 Apr 2018
+1: #360 Isn’t That Extreme?
Susan Peirce Thompson wrote a great book called Bright Line Eating. She has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and is one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of eating. Before all that, Susan …
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Sat 31 Mar 2018
+1: #355 The Decade View
Matthew Kelly has written a number of great books. We have Notes on three of them: Perfectly Yourself, The Rhythm of Life and Off Balance. In Off Balance, Mathew tells us that if we want to c…
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Mon 26 Mar 2018
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