You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson The Battle Within: Wolves and Lawyers in Combat (Who's Winning?) (Heroic +1 #1,449)
Mar 10, 2023
A lively look at the inner battle between disciplined action and easy temptations. The Cherokee two-wolves parable and a two-lawyers-in-your-head metaphor illustrate which voice you feed. Attention is framed as the currency that makes one inner voice win. Listeners are prompted to notice who is winning their inner struggle and take one small corrective action.
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Every Minute Is A Moral Choice
- Daily life contains a constant internal battle between doing what is right, hard, and necessary and doing what is easy, fun, and low value.
- Brian Tracy frames this as an every-minute fight where winning requires resisting the path of least resistance and prioritizing the expediency factor.
Which Wolf Wins You Feed It
- The Cherokee story describes two wolves inside us: one of unhappiness and one of happiness.
- The grandson asks which wolf wins and the elder answers the one you feed, framing emotion as a practiced choice (shared by Marci Shimoff).
Attention Pays Your Inner Lawyers
- Alan Cohen imagines two lawyers in your head arguing for possibilities versus limits, and the winner is the one you pay most.
- 'Paying' these lawyers means directing your attention toward empowering or limiting narratives.
