My All-Time Favorite Hero: Here’s Their (& Your!) Superpower (Heroic +1 #1,582)

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another arete one degree. This is one of 451 micro chapters from our new book, Arete Activate youe Heroic Potential. In fact, this is the first microchapter in the seventh objective in the book. There are seven objectives. This one is from the seventh objective. Activate your superpower. The micro chapter is called My all time Favorite Hero. Here's their and your superpower. Quick question for you. Who's your favorite hero? If you feel so inspired, take a moment and think about that right now. Who comes to mind? I have a few of my favorite heroes in my studio and on my office wall behind me. Great teachers and leaders who inspire me to show up as my best, most heroic version of myself. Aristotle, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Gandhi, Abraham Maslow, Martin Luther King Jr. My wife and I even named our kids after two of our favorite heroes. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Eleanor Roosevelt. So again, who inspires you? What individuals, living or dead, embody the qualities you most admire? What individuals showed up and lived in a way that deeply inspires you to show up and give us all you've got? As you think about that, know this. All those heroes showed up in their own idiosyncratic way. Gandhi was frail and would go days without talking, while Churchill was portly and rarely stopped talking. And those two guys didn't even like each other. But all those heroes had one thing in common. It's what Aristotle had and what he helped ignite in Alexander the Great. It's what Epictetus had and what he helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate in his life. It's what Gandhi had and is the force that freed his nation. And for the record, it was Gandhi who actually gave this power its name. It's what Martin Luther King Jr. Had and inspired by his hero Gandhi is something he actually talks about in his I have a Dream speech. It's what Eleanor Roosevelt had, and Florence Nightingale and Helen Keller and Anne Frank and countless others who may have made it into our history books or may have just humbly made an anonymous yet indelible mark on our world by deeply inspiring their friends and families and communities. So what's the one thing all the great heroes across all cultures throughout history have had in common? Soul force. It's every hero's superpower. Soul force. It's that ineffable power you can feel in human beings living in integrity with their highest ideals. Soul force. It's the force that can literally change the world. And guess what? It's your superpower as well. We just need to activate it. Not someday, today. And then, very importantly, we need to reactivate our Soul Force all day, every day. And that, my dear friend, is how we will fundamentally and permanently change your life while fundamentally and permanently changing the world together. I want to wrap up this plus one degree with one more question. Ultimately, do you know who my all time favorite hero is? Give you a hint. Go look in the mirror. My all time favorite hero is unquestionably you. You are the hero we've been waiting for. And helping you activate your Soul Force is my ultimate mission in life. Day one. All in. Let's go.