

You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson
You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson features the best big ideas from life-changing books and practical tools to help you move from Theory to Practice to Mastery and flourish in Energy, Work, and Love. Get more wisdom in less time so you can activate your best, every day—so that we can change the world, one person at a time, together, starting with you and me and us, today! (Learn more about Heroic Public Benefit Corporation at https://heroic.us)
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Mar 29, 2021 • 11min
PNTV: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (#60)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Nietzsche was said to deliver his philosophy with a hammer and in this PN TV episode we'll take a quick look at some Big Ideas from his classic "Thus Spoke Zarathustra." We'll explore everything from why he said "God is dead!" to the importance of giving joy to enjoy and I hope you dig it!

Mar 26, 2021 • 12min
PNTV: Unbeatable Mind by Mark Divine (#127)
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Mar 24, 2021 • 11min
PNTV: Willpower by Roy Baumeister & John Tierney (#149)
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Mar 22, 2021 • 11min
PNTV: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (#7)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. He is extraordinary. He survived the horrors of concentration camps and created "Logotherapy"--his philosophy of life that he articulates in his classic book, "Man's Search for Meaning." In this PN TV episode, we'll take a quick look at a few of my favorite Big Ideas. Hope you enjoy!!

Mar 19, 2021 • 12min
PNTV: Thanks! by Robert Emmons (#162)
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Mar 17, 2021 • 13min
PNTV: Legacy by James Kerr (#288)
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Mar 16, 2021 • 11min
PNTV: A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine (#106)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Here's your guide to the good life (Stoic style!)!! :) I mentioned these links in the video: Happiness, Eudaimonia & Arete: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLL6wj... Louis CK on Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy (hilarious!): Hmmm... It's disappeared! Google it! :)

Mar 12, 2021 • 15min
PNTV: Black Hole Focus by Isaiah Hankel (#286)
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Mar 10, 2021 • 11min
PNTV: Loving What Is by Byron Katie (#38)
Optimize: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) Optimize Coach: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Optimizers from 70+ Countries!) Loving What Is by Byron Katie. In this PN TV episode, we explore a few of my favorite Big Ideas from Byron Katie's brilliant book, "Loving What Is." Hope you enjoy! :)

Mar 8, 2021 • 26min
PNTV: Musonius Rufus, Lectures and Sayings (#403)
Here are 5 of my favorite Big Ideas from the Lectures and Sayings of Musonius Rufus, translated by Cynthia Arrieu King. Hope you enjoy! ► OPTIMIZE: https://optimize.me/ (← Get Free Stuff + Free 2-Week Trial!) ► OPTIMIZE COACH: https://optimize.me/coach (← Join 2,000+ Masters from 70+ Countries!) Musonius Rufus was one of the four great Roman Stoics. In fact, he was known as the "Roman Socrates." To put him in historical context with the other three great Roman Stoics: He was born in AD 30, about 34 years after Seneca. He taught Epictetus (who was born in AD 55). Epictetus died in 135 but taught the guys who taught the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (who was born in AD 121) his Stoic philosophy—which is why Aurelius refers to him more than any other teacher in Meditations. Big Ideas we explore include: Theory vs. Practice (which is more important?), practicing philosophy (is where it's at!), vice vs. exile (free yourself from vice!), food (it's the medicine of life), and stoic love advice (competing in kindness).


