Short YouTube micro-class by Brian Johnson contrasting "naive" passion (giving up when first obstacle appears) with "informed" passion (expecting and leaning into obstacles). The speaker urges cultivating courage and maturity to persist. The video ends with a promotional overview of Brian's membership: micro classes, Philosopher's Notes (PDF/MP3), archived courses, and member testimonials.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on passion.
Naive versus informed. It's inspired by art and fear. Two different types of passion. Naive passion and informed passion. Most important thing to think about as we think about this is our relationship to obstacles. When something gets in our way, here's the big shiny goal that we want to achieve, right? And we start with naive passion.
And we hit an obstacle. Oh, man, that's tough to get over. I don't know how I'm going to do it.
I give up because I have naive passion. As I mature and I realize every single goal that's worth attaining has at least one or two or three or 100 obstacles between me and its attainment, then I have informed passion. And when I hit that first obstacle, I quit giving up. I quit being what Eknath Eswaran calls a hero. In the beginning, Arumbashura. They have a word for it in Sanskrit. It's so common. You start something, you're super fired up. I'm going to go achieve this.
Meditation practice, business venture, relationship, whatever.
And then the moment you hit an obstacle, he says, you tiptoe out the back door.
Oh, wait, I'm gonna go sneak out this door.
Did I say I was excited about that?
Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, tiptoe out the back door.
TRUMPETS OF FANFARE in the beginning, you're a hero. In the beginning, naively passionate.
And then you bail the moment it becomes challenging.
It takes courage to transfer. Translate our naive passion into informed passion.
We want to cultivate that courage and that maturity.
And when we hit obstacles, lean into them, we want to stop stopping and certainly stop quitting.
As we talked about in an earlier big idea in this series. There you go.
Passion. Naive versus informed.
How are you showing up?
How can you optimize that just a.
Little bit more today? Hey guys, this is Brian. A lot of people don't know what I do beyond these YouTube videos I put up. So I thought I'd give you a quick tour of our membership platform. Thousands of people have joined us already. 10 bucks a month get access to a ton of stuff that's in addition to what I put up on YouTube for free. So the basic idea is you just watched a micro class. Hope you enjoyed that. I share. I just started doing these micro classes, but I Now share over 50 of these per month. We've shared dozens so far and it's basically a quick class on my absolute favorite stuff across the different domains of optimal living. 2 to 3 maybe 5 minute little micro classes. On how to optimize your life. In addition to that, you get access to every single one of our Philosopher's notes. We now have over 250 philosopher's notes on some really, really good books. A lot of them in each one of them. You're familiar with the PNTV videos if you've watched many of those. But we also have PDFs and MP3s of our Philosopher's notes. So here's. Let's take a look at what a PDF looks like. This is an example of a Philosopher's Note. It's a six page PDF where I basically share some of my favorite thoughts, riff on it, talk about how other teachers say the same things, and give you a nice playful kick in the butt to go out and apply the wisdom that is a Philosopher's Note. I record that as an MP3 that you can download as well. And 250 of those, I produce 10 of those at least per month that I share with you. In addition to the micro classes. And then you also get access to all of our old classes. We have the five day immersion reboot habits 101, confidence 101, getting stuff done 101, meditation 101, and then future classes including relationships 101, energy 101, purpose 101, biz 101, goals 101, etc. So there you go. Really blessed to have some extraordinary support and I will share with you where you go to sign up. I'll put a link to this, but basically cruise on over here. You can sign up. And this is the kind of response we've gotten so far from our members. It's pretty neat. I've made more positive changes in my life, my brief membership only three months so far, than I did through years of counseling. Yes, Brian Johnson, you are a rock star. Thank you very much. That's very kind of you. And I'm making huge strides in optimizing my life as a result of your philosopher's notes and optimal living classes. I spend $19 a month on my gym membership to take care of my body. A mere $10 a month on an optimal living membership is the biggest value invest investment I've ever made in my emotional, mental and spiritual health. Thank you for the incredible work you're doing to inspire us to be rock stars in our own lives. Unbelievably inspiring and humbling. In 24 hours, we received hundreds of extraordinary notes from members around the world.
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