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)
Episodes
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Jan 9, 2016 • 6min
Masterpiece Days 101: How to Create a Great Life One Great Day at a Time (Intro)
Great lives (and great 2016s!) are created one great day at a time. Here's how to rock it. Get the Workbook + watch the full Masterpiece Days 101 class at brianjohnson.me
Jan 5, 2016 • 20min
PNTV: Presence by Amy Cuddy
Amy Cuddy is awesome. Her TED talk is the 2nd most popular ever. This book is just as good. Learn the science of cultivating your personal power to bring your boldest self to your biggest challenges. Big Ideas we explore: self-affirmation theory, priming + nudges, the magic of expanding your body to increase your power, iHunch (how's yours?), and the boldest you.
Dec 28, 2015 • 8min
Greatest Year Ever 101: How to Make 2016 the Best Year of Your Life (Intro)
This is an introduction to our newest Master Class: Greatest Year Ever 101: How to Make 2016 the Best Year of Your Life and Create an Unending String of Such Awesome Years. :) Get instant access to the full class plus a ton of other goodness as a member. Sign up here: https://brianjohnson.me/membership/
Dec 17, 2015 • 6min
Micro Class - Self-theories: 2 Frameworks + 2 Goals
Carol Dweck tells us we can have 2 different frameworks to approach intelligence and achievement. Each has its own goal. Here they are. (P.S. Choose wisely!)
Dec 15, 2015 • 4min
Micro Class - Anxietivity
Creativity and anxiety go together. Anxietivity. Let’s remember that a meaningful life in which we’re flourishing and giving ourselves most fully to the world involves stress.
Dec 12, 2015 • 29min
Interview: Deep Work with Cal Newport
Deep Work. It's the key to how you get So Good They Can't Ignore You—which, of course, is the title of another one of Cal's great books. Big Ideas include Deep Work vs. Shallow Work, how to give your neurons a workout, cleaning up attention residue, the four rules of deep work, finding the routine that works for you and learning how to shut down completely.
Dec 10, 2015 • 4min
Micro Class - Passion: Naive vs. Informed
Naive passion is *great*!! Right up to the first obstacle. Then our hero tiptoes out the back door. We need the courage of informed passion.
Dec 9, 2015 • 16min
PNTV - Are You Fully Charged? by Tom Rath
Are you fully charged? Tom Rath tells us it’s all about what we do DAILY and that if we want to improve the quality of our lives (and sense of aliveness!), we need to focus on optimizing three key conditions: Meaning + Interactions + Energy. Big Ideas we explore include the meaning equation, doubling down on your talents, embracing the 500 million moments of our lives, and The iPhone Effect.
Dec 8, 2015 • 6min
Micro Class - Desirable Difficulty
Malcolm Gladwell tells us some difficulties can be desirable. How about yours?
Dec 7, 2015 • 17min
PNTV: Maximize Your Potential by Jocelyn K. Glei
This is the second of the three books currently in 99U Book Series. (We cover them all.) Big Ideas we explore in this one include putting yourself into permanent beta, making a decision and then working hard to prove yourself right Peyton Manning style, expanding the amplitude of the waves you make and becoming the Better You.
