Brian Johnson uses a video game metaphor to show how to reduce suffering: identify your biggest problem, create if-then plans to handle it, test new responses, and iterate like you're beating levels. The paid platform offers micro-classes, Philosopher's Notes, and courses for about $10 a month.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class.
This one's on youn Mind as a Video Game. It's inspired by Waking up by Sam.
Harris rational approach to Spirituality.
Sam Harris is awesome and humble in.
His description of his own challenges and his contemplative path.
And he says he finds it funny at this stage how quickly his mind can flip from being awesome and happy to being not so much back and.
Forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And you realize, you know what? I can kind of approach my mind as a video game. And there's two paths I can take. I can be smart about it or.
I can be not so smart about it. And they're very, very different.
But imagine if you were playing a video game and you faced a monster.
With really long legs. Let's say this monster has long legs. For some reason, right now you're going up against this monster.
If you're doing it intelligently, you, you get defeated a couple times, Boom. Ah, bummer. But then you realize how to go around it, right?
You can go around that way, you can go around this way, you go.
To the next level and then of course you face new challenges, right? And you learn how to go around them. But if you're playing the video game of life unintelligently, you face this monster and he beats you every single time. You never practice different moves around him and you just get sad face defeated every single time. And you suffer a lot more than you need to suffer. So my question for you in this little micro class is what's your number one monster? Number one monster is what, what trips.
You up that leads to more suffering than you need to experience.
And most importantly, what can you do differently? How can you maneuver around this guy and get to the next level? You might want to do some if then planning. I'm loving this A la whoop, right? If you feel tempted to respond to your monster this way, then you're going to do this. That's how I'm going to defeat this monster. Go test it.
It might not work the first time or the fifth time or the tenth.
Time, but go test it and tweak it and make your life a video game and quit doing the same thing.
If it's not working for you.
That's a quick look at your mind as a video game.
I love that metaphor and I hope you enjoyed. Identify your number one monster if you're feeling it and do a little if then implementation, intention, planning and enjoy the process. Alright. More soon. Have another awesome day. See ya. 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 favorites off 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 philosophers 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 3 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. So there you go. That's a quick look at what we're up to. 10 bucks a month. Hope to astonish you. There you go.
