Brian Johnson uses a Southwest flight's pre-flight checklist as a model for building daily checklists that create antifragile confidence. He's heading to Norfolk to meet Captain Dave Pollard and 50 leaders aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, and previews the Heroic Big Three Protocol as a practical checklist approach.
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11:32am Central Time on Thursday, February 22, 2024.
Southwest flight number 1956, seat 3F.
Norfolk, Virginia.
Captain Dave Pollard and 50 of his top heroic leaders.
The USS George H.W. Bush (an aircraft carrier).
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Heroic one. I'm typing this at 11:32am Central Time on Thursday, February 22, 2024. I'm in seat 3F on Southwest flight number 1956. I'm heading to Norfolk, Virginia to spend.
Some time with Captain Dave Pollard and.
50 of his top heroic leaders on the USS George H.W. bush, the US aircraft carrier that helped defend Ukraine. We're minutes away from takeoff and I.
Can see the captain and co pilot in the cockpit.
You know what they're doing?
They're literally going through their final checklist.
And you know what that makes me think about?
It makes me think about one of the slides in the presentation I'm going to give tomorrow.
Whenever I give a talk or lead.
A workshop, I always walk through our.
Seven objectives that integrate the ancient wisdom.
And modern science that forms the back.
Backbone of our Heroic App and Heroic Coach program.
And well, everything we do with heroic.
As you know, if you've been following along, Objective 2 is all about how to forge antifragile confidence such that you.
Literally get stronger with each obstacle you face.
In order to move past that being a nice bumper sticker thing to say.
We need to operationalize that inspiring idea.
In order to do that, we need to know who we are when we.
Are at our best and do that.
When we feel our worst. Then then we forge antifragile confidence and.
Get as close to being invincible as we're ever going to be.
Literally using the obstacles that used to.
Break us as the very things that make us stronger.
And you know how we do all that?
We channel the crew from the plane I'm on.
I'm now 10,000ft in the air as I was typing that and create a.
Checklist for our lives.
Know this. You would never get on a plane.
With a crew who didn't have and.
Go through a checklist period. Why? Well, Captain Obvious here, because that's a.
Good way to crash and die.
So to be direct, I ask, do you go through your day without a checklist? The wisest among us know who we.
Are when we are at our best.
Then we make a checklist to remind ourselves of those simple behaviors that keep us dialed in. Then we dominate that checklist all day, every day, especially today. Do you?
It's day one.
We're all in.
Let's go.
P.S.
Obviously there are a lot of ways to create a checklist for our lives.
And that's what the Heroic Big three.
Protocol is all about. In the practice part of the Heroic.
App Science says use it, and you'll.
Be 23% more energized and a whole lot more productive and connected as well.
