Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

Building habits takes time.

17 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short spoken reflection by Brian Johnson advising patience and persistence when changing long-standing habits. He warns against expecting instant results, encourages repeated cycles of practice, and frames setbacks (feeling low, frumpy, depressed, or hopeless) as opportunities to cultivate wisdom, self-mastery, and self-love while maintaining hope.

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If you think that you should be able to change a lifetime of habits, you're planting the seed and you want a forest. There is a deficiency which is foolishness, which is not appropriately seeing that things take time in order for results to occur. And perhaps that's thematic that you want results so fast that you never give yourself enough cycles through to actually see the results before you give up and then go do something else. Truly use this as a practical opportunity to practice your philosophy and get better at approaching your life and using the sleep as like a metaphor or a context to see if you can cultivate more wisdom, self mastery, love for yourself in life. I got to get my energy up, I got to get more vitality because I'm feeling a little bit frumpy and down, maybe a little depressed or a little bit hopeless and all those things. Don't forget that and then don't lose hope that you can have that.