Heroic Chat with Mark Divine (Recorded at Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential — The Live Experience)
Jan 14, 2024
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Mark Divine, an expert in human performance, mental toughness, leadership, and physical readiness, joins Brian Johnson for a Heroic Chat. They discuss topics such as navigating tough times among veterans, finding purpose, living a virtuous life, and the power of love. They emphasize the importance of resilience, team mindset, and showing up for something bigger than oneself.
Communities like Heroic provide a sense of teamwork and support for veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries.
By combining self-mastery with service, individuals can become conduits for love and make a positive impact on the world.
Deep dives
The Importance of Burpees for Vets
Mark Divine started Burpees for vets as part of the Courage Foundation to raise awareness about the high suicide rate among veterans. The goal was to enlist people to do 22 million burpees and raise money to support veterans suffering from PTSD and suicidal thoughts. They also developed a veteran integration program that provides year-long support to veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries. The program focuses on helping veterans find new purpose, reconnect with teamwork, and develop new tools for mental and emotional well-being.
The Power of Purpose
According to Mark Divine, purpose is crucial for everyone, especially veterans who lose their sense of purpose after leaving the military. He believes that finding meaning and purpose is a key component of self-mastery and resilience. Communities like Heroic provide a sense of teamwork and support for veterans who may feel lost and isolated. By encouraging veterans to seek help and reconnect with a new mission, communities like Heroic offer a lifeline for those struggling with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries.
Self-Mastery and Service
Mark Divine emphasizes that self-mastery is not an end in itself but rather a pathway to serving others more powerfully. He advocates for integrating physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual practices to accelerate personal development. This integration helps individuals connect with their own inner potential and align it with a mission of service to humanity. The process of self-mastery involves shedding the ego and removing obstacles that block the flow of love and compassion. By combining self-mastery with service, individuals can become conduits for love and make a positive impact on the world.
Activating Your Superpower of Love
Mark Divine finds inspiration in King Leonidas and Jesus as his personal heroes. King Leonidas symbolizes warrior strength and integrity, leading his men with love and sacrificing himself alongside them. Jesus exemplifies boundless love for all humanity, demonstrating the power of love in action. Divine believes that activating one's superpower of love involves getting out of one's own way and removing ego-driven barriers. Every step towards self-mastery and service helps remove obstacles to the flow of love, ultimately allowing individuals to tap into their infinite capacity for love and make a profound difference in the world.
In today’s Heroic Chat, we are joined by Mark Divine.
Mark Divine is an expert in human performance as it is displayed in mental toughness, leadership and physical readiness. His work is based on an integral warrior-leader model that he developed and tested on over a thousand special operations candidates worldwide.
He is the author of Staring Down the Wolf, The Way of the SEAL, and Unbeatable Mind.