Brian Johnson outlines a book distilling 20+ years of his teaching, structured around eight objectives starting with "Answer the call." He positions himself as a lowercase-g guide helping readers connect to their inner capital-G guide, the Daimon, then leads a short breath-and-intent practice.
Chapters
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Heroic plus one. Now, I've been thinking about getting ready to write my book, and technically it's not my book, it's our book. I won't own the rights to it. Heroic Public Benefit Corporation will. Heroic Current Working Subtitle Heroic A training manual to activate your Soul Force. Or perhaps Heroic and ancient Wisdom, modern science and practical tools to actualize your potential. Or perhaps we'll go with the minimalist Heroic activate your Soul Force. Or something better. I'll be asking for your guidance to help us figure that out soon. Now the book will be the distillation of all the wisdom I've been studying and practicing and teaching for the better part of the last 20 plus years. It will feature the same core seven objectives from the mastery series of our Heroic Coach program and basic training. Objective 1 Know the ultimate game. Objective 2 Forge antifragile confidence. Objective 3 Optimize your big three. Objective 4 Make today a masterpiece. Objective 5 Master yourself. Objective 6 Dominate the fundamentals. Objective 7 Activate your soul Force. And before we get to all that, it will start with Objective zero. Answer the call. As Joseph Campbell tells us, the hero's journey begins with the hero. And that would be you answering the call. Note nothing, all caps. Interesting happens until the hero is willing to voyage beyond their comfort zone into the unknown. Then the hero meets a guide. Then the hero meets some awesome buddies with whom they'll go on their quest. Then they get to face their idiosyncratic villain dragons. Then they win. Or they learn. Usually a great story has a lot of both. And then they return to the normal world, transformed as the real challenge begins, figuring out how to give their newfound gifts to the world. Then they repeat the whole process again and again and again. Now, as part of that introductory objective, we'll define what it means to be a hero. Map out what our heroic quest throughout the book will look like, and I'll introduce myself with a micro chapter called Meet yout Guide. I'll talk about the fact that Harry and Hermione and Ron got Dumbledore as their guide, while Frodo and Aragorn and Legolas got Gandalf as their guide. And the X Men and Women got Professor Xavier as as their guide. For the purposes of the book, I'll share a little about my background and humbly submit myself as a prospective guide, noting the fact that Professor Xavier and I share the same haircut while I go back and forth on working on my Dumbledore Gandalf esque beard. Only I'LL make the point that I'm the guide with the lowercase G. My job to help you more and more consistently connect with your own internal guide with a capital G. The fact is, you already have all the wisdom you need. You already have the wisest possible capital G guide you could ever possibly find. It's that quiet voice within. It's your Daimon. We just need to help you connect to and follow the wisdom from that guide more and more consistently. Which, of course, is the entire point of all of our work together. So today's plus one. Let's take a breath together as we invite the best, most heroic versions of ourselves to join us and give us a little guidance for today. Flip the switch. Sit or stand a little taller. Chest up, chin down. Take that nice, deep breath in through the nose, down into the belly, back out through the nose. Exhale slightly longer. Then. Then the inhale. Smile. Hi, Daimon. Now let's ask them, Daimon, what's the one thing you'd like me to think about today? And what's the one thing you'd like me to do today? Got it. Awesome. Now go do it. Today's the day, hero. When in doubt, flip the switch. Connect with your guide, and ask them what they think you should do. And give us all you've got today.
