Becoming A Hero: How To Transform Into The Best Version of Yourself with Brian Johnson: An EOFire Classic from 2022

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Jul 26, 2025

Brian Johnson, Founder and CEO of Heroic, aims to reshape personal growth through a social training platform. He emphasizes embracing virtue to express your best self daily. Delving into insights from over 600 self-improvement books, he discusses the 51-2051 initiative, aiming for 51% of people to thrive by 2051. Johnson reflects on the weight of leadership responsibilities and the power of consistent routines. He inspires listeners to pursue transformative change and highlights the role of commitment in both personal and professional realms.

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INSIGHT

Ultimate Game of Life

The ultimate game of life is to express the best version of yourself continuously.
This philosophy is called eudaimonia via arete, or flourishing through virtue in action.

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Live With Virtue

Living with virtue means closing the gap between your potential and actions to avoid regret.
Expressing your best self moment by moment leads to flourishing and success in life.

ANECDOTE

Heroic's Creation Story

On election night 2020, Brian had an awakening about creating a conscious social platform.
He launched Heroic using new crowdfunding laws and raised over $5 million in 100 hours.

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From the archive - This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Brian Johnson, Founder and CEO of Heroic, recently made crowdfunding history and is building a social training platform that will change the world.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Express the best version of yourself.

2. Live with virtue - not once in a while, but right at this moment.

3. First thing’s first. Second thing is not at all.

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