You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson The Living Dead: Quit Avoiding Pain and LIVE! (Heroic +1 #1,788)
Jun 13, 2024
Guests Caroline Adams Miller, Martin Seligman, Angela Duckworth, and Phil Stutz share wisdom on embracing pain and living fully. They discuss facing challenges, working hard, and tapping into heroic potential by embracing discomfort and uncertainty for personal growth.
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Practical Science Of Well-Being
- Brian highlights Caroline Adams Miller's skill at turning well-being science into practical steps.
- He praises the book's dense, actionable, scientifically grounded wisdom.
Foreword Connections On Goal Science
- Brian shares Gary Latham's foreword praise and his connection to goal-setting science.
- He also notes he wrote the forward to Caroline Adams Miller's next book, Big Goals.
Avoiding Hurt Makes You The Living Dead
- Edwin Locke draws a sharp distinction: people are vulnerable or dead when they avoid hurt.
- Living only to avoid pain makes you one of the "living dead," unable to fully live.