What does being on a ‘heroic journey’ mean to you?
Books I love:
Areté | Activate Your Heroic Potential Volume 1 | Brian Johnson | 2023 | Non Fiction
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📚 This volume is HUGE - it is over 900 pages (gulp) so not only do you have to have big strong muscles to hold the damn thing you have to have passion and a dash of patience to get through it
📚 Luckily it is a pretty engaging read broken into tiny bite size sections - as in 2-3 page nibbles to digest at a time - that is doable! Nibble nibble nibble….I am still nibbling…lol
📚 This book was recommended to me from an old colleague and friend that I deeply respect and admire so when I saw the girth of the tome I had to have a giggle but then jumped in with both feet as I know if it resonated with Scott, it would have gold in the pages
📚 And sure enough it does!
📚 For those of you not familiar with the author, Johnson bills himself as a philosopher, a teacher and an entreupreuneur
📚 His personal commitment is to help create a world in which 51% of humanity is flourishing by the year 2051! Bold, heroic and timely
📚 In a nutshell the book integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools to help you win the ultimate game of life and fulfill your destiny
📚 He has broken the volume into sections which he labels ‘Objectives’ covering 7 areas to activate your heroic potential - they include: how to play the game of life, how to play it well with confidence, how to optimize energy, work and love, how to have productive masterpiece days, self-mastery including structural discipline, reactive discipline and expansive discipline, dialing in the fundamentals of life including eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, focussing, celebrating and prosering and finally activating your soul force! Boom!
📚 What I really love about this bad boy book is that it is in alignment with all the work I have been doing around positive intelligence and mental fitness and growing positive powerful mindsets
📚 Johnson wants everyone to activate their heroic potential to help make the world a better place and that is a philosophy that I am 100% down with
📚 He has created an App to go along with it called ‘Heroic’ - which I try and use daily - you can download for free. I have found it to be a titch masculine without enough unicorn magic in its design - but that may just be me lol
📚 I highly recommend Areté
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."― Aristotle