Brian Johnson opens a brief Heroic +1 podcast episode by recounting a vivid dream and reporting high biometric scores (Aura: 94 readiness, 94 sleep). He introduces Peter Attia’s idea of “baseline resetting” from Outlive — that many people forget what it feels like to feel great — and uses a TV metaphor to contrast a dull, low-resolution baseline with a high-resolution optimal state. He challenges listeners to recall the last time they woke up feeling great, identify what they were doing and not doing, and commit to one action to start and one to stop to wake up energized tomorrow.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. Now, I rarely remember my dreams and I rarely do anything before meditating, but I just woke up following a dream in which I was basically doing a plus one in front of a group of people. I kid you not, these are the dreams I have. So I decided to immediately create this plus one. Let's get straight to work before I forget it. First off, I just checked my aura scores. Aura tells me I'm a 94 readiness and a 94 sleep and I feel great. You know those days when you wake up and you're like, yes, today's gonna be a great day? Well, that's me this morning. And that's who I want to be and how I want to feel every morning. Which is why I prioritize my sleep and my eating and my moving and breathing and focusing with such intensity. There are a couple things I want to share here. Then we'll get to the dream I just had in the next one. Now, I just read Peter Attia's great book, Outlive Note Coming Soon. In it, he talks about something called baseline resetting. The basic idea most people are so subtly or significantly tired all the time that they never knew or forgot what it feels like to to feel great. He compares this to having two different kinds of TVs. Imagine having one of the original old school color TVs. It's obviously amazing. I mean, you can see little moving figures in a screen and everything, which is a miracle. But until you get a new super HD jumbo TV that nearly covers your entire wall, you don't know how good it could be. So you don't really get what you're missing. As Seneca said, the worse a person is, the less they feel it. Now, here's today's plus one. Where are you right now on the spectrum of old school fuzzy TV versus cutting edge high resolution goodness? Be honest and think back to the most recent time when you woke up feeling great. It might have been this morning, or it might have been last week, or it might have been a decade ago. But think back to that time and think about what specifically you were doing. And perhaps most importantly, think about what specifically you weren't doing. Now, what's the one thing you know you could start doing and the one thing you know you could stop doing that would help you wake up buzzing with energy tomorrow morning. You got it. Awesome. Crush it tonight.
