Change The World By Activating Your Heroic Potential with Brian Johnson
Nov 18, 2023
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Brian Johnson, Founder and CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation and author of Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential, discusses his journey and vision for social change. Topics include redefining the word 'Hero,' bridging ancient wisdom with modern science, mitochondrial psychobiology, fostering anti-fragility, and the power of one targeted action per day.
Optimizing your physiology, including aspects like nutrition, exercise, and sleep, plays a foundational role in your psychological well-being.
Getting clear on what you truly want in life is essential for creating a sense of purpose and motivation.
Understanding the concept of anti-fragility is crucial for overall health and well-being.
Deep dives
The Ultimate Game and Playing It Well
Knowing the ultimate game and playing it well is crucial for a fulfilling life. Ancient wisdom and modern science emphasize the importance of living with virtue, being your best self, and contributing to something bigger than yourself. This requires clarity on what you want in life, energy optimization through nutrition, exercise, sleep, and focusing your attention. When you align your actions with your ideals, you experience a sense of purpose and meaning.
Physiology and Psychology
Optimizing your physiology, including aspects like nutrition, exercise, and sleep, plays a foundational role in your psychological well-being. The way you fuel and move your body, as well as the quality of your sleep, can greatly impact your clarity, mood, and overall mental state. By prioritizing the fundamentals of your physical well-being, you create a solid basis for enhancing your mindset and psychological resilience.
Clarity on What You Want
Getting clear on what you truly want in life is essential for creating a sense of purpose and motivation. By envisioning your ideal future and identifying your goals in the areas of energy, work, and love, you can start manifesting the life you desire. Cultivating anti-fragile confidence and a growth mindset enables you to consistently take actions aligned with your goals and overcome challenges with resilience.
Anti-Fragility and its Importance
Understanding the concept of anti-fragility is crucial for overall health and well-being. Anti-fragility refers to the ability to thrive and grow stronger in the face of challenges and stress. By optimizing your physical and mental health, developing resilience, and embracing a growth mindset, you can become anti-fragile and better equipped to handle life's ups and downs. Prioritizing self-care, seeking personal growth, and fostering positive relationships are key components of anti-fragility.
Building Anti-Fragile Confidence
Building anti-fragile confidence is about embracing challenges and stress as opportunities for growth. Resilience allows us to endure stress and bounce back, but being anti-fragile means that we actually get stronger when faced with challenges. Approaching life with the mindset that challenges are meant to be faced and overcome, rather than avoided, can help us become our best selves. Developing emotional stamina and committing to our protocols even when we don't feel like it can help us forge anti-fragile confidence.
Consistency and Commitment to Something Bigger
Consistency is key in developing and maintaining anti-fragile confidence. By consistently doing the basic things that contribute to our well-being, such as eating well, exercising, sleeping, and spending quality time with loved ones, we build trust in ourselves. Consistently doing the little things that align with our best selves helps us cultivate anti-fragile confidence. Furthermore, heroes have in common a commitment to something bigger than themselves. By dedicating our lives to a purpose or cause that is greater than personal gain, we can tap into our heroic potential and find fulfillment in serving others.
In this episode, I’m speaking with Brian Johnson, founder and CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation and the author of Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential.
I know Brian personally, and he is one of the most thoughtful, disciplined, and all-around interesting people I’ve ever met—I can’t wait to share this episode with you!
In this podcast, Brian and I discuss:
His journey from Philosopher’s Notes, his project that I followed for over a decade!, to Heroic, his vision for social change through personal transformation
The secret meaning of the word “Hero” and how redefining the word will change our world
7 practical objectives that bridge ancient wisdom with modern science…and Brian’s vision for building a community of people committed to making the world a better place
The concept of Areté and how it’s the most deceivingly simple way to finally live a life you love
The fascinating way our mitochondria are tied to our life’s purpose and the emerging field of mitochondrial psychobiology
The number one way to foster physiological and psychological anti-fragility…the concept that challenges of all types make us stronger, more purposeful, and more capable of supporting others
The nearly unbelievable results of a study done on Brian’s work showing that just ONE targeted action per day leads to 23% more energy
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