Brian Johnson explains his new “bat phone” heroic number (spoken with variants around 212-451-2255) and shows how he uses the Heroic app to set a 'Heroic Work identity'—currently 'Heroic Philosopher CEO.' He describes a daily 30-second recommitment ritual where he affirms a list of leadership virtues (ambition, focus, intensity, duty, quiet professionalism, humility, indomitable will, decisiveness, antifragility, honesty, competence, forward-looking, inspiring, magnanimity), links some virtues to role models (Abraham Lincoln, military/special forces, Jim Collins’ Level 5 leader), cites leadership literature (The Leadership Challenge) and Sean Young’s Stick with It (re: neurohacks), and closes with a call-to-action to answer one’s Daimon at the new heroic bat phone.
Questions this video answers
212-451-2255 (spoken with several variant renderings in the clip)
Heroic Philosopher CEO
30 seconds
Sean Young — Stick with It; Jim Collins (Level 5 leader); The Leadership Challenge
Chapters
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Heroic one. In our last plus one you got a new Bat phone with your new heroic phone number. It's 212-45-122 12 degrees, 451 degrees 2000 degrees. You want to make sure you trade contact info with your Daimon and then keep that Bat phone on and ready to answer the call to your next heroic adventure at all times of the day and and night. You never know when your Daimon might need to get in touch with you. Now right after creating that last plus one, I smiled. Then I went to reread my text exchange with my friend to make sure I captured the essence of his great wisdom. Then I went to our app and I updated my heroic work identity so I could remind myself of my friend, our friendship and his heroic leadership and wisdom. Now my go to Heroic Work identity these days is Heroic Philosopher CEO. I use the phi symbol which is the Greek symbol which represents for me philosopher. Now every single morning I recommit to being a worthy leader of our public benefit corporation and movement as I feel into what it means for me to play my role as a heroic philosopher creating these plus ones and PNs, et cetera, and a heroic CEO shaping the vision and forming the relationships with our community partners and investors that will catalyze our movement. Then I recommit to living in integrity with the virtues that the best, most heroic version of me embodies as I tap tap tap in our Heroic app and silently say to myself, I am fiercely ambitious, inspired by Abraham Lincoln. I am focused on when or what's important now. I am unapologetically intense. I have a sense of duty, inspired by those who serve us in the military. I am a quiet professional inspired by special Forces operators who just do their jobs and don't make it a big self congratulatory deal. I am humble. I have indomitable will. Note the combo of that virtue and humility are the two attributes of Jim Collins's Level 5 leader. I aspire to be. I am decisive, I am anti fragile, I am honest, I am competent, I am forward looking and I am inspiring. Note according to the top scholars on the science of leadership. See our notes on the Leadership Challenge. Those last four virtues are the top virtues people look for in leaders. Therefore I recommit to living with them every single day. I'm honest, I'm competent, I'm forward looking and I'm inspiring. I and finally, I am magnanimous. As per one of the final chapters in my book, to be magnanimous is to have a great soul, which is, of course, the ultimate game I'm playing. Check out that plus one in this one. So every single morning, I invest the 30 seconds it takes to recommit to winning the ultimate game of life by living in integrity with with those virtues. Important longer chat note. It's this relentless commitment to connecting to our virtues that makes the heroic app so much more than just another habit tracker. So back to my updated identity. I just made it. Heroic philosopher CEO equals 212-45-12255. Okay, I'll tell you why I made those last four digits 2255 rather than 2000 in our next one. For now, know this. Neuroscientists say that one of the fastest ways to change your life is to create constant reminders of who you aspire to be. It's why changing your password and other things is a neurohack Sean Young recommends in his great book Stick with it. Check out those notes for now. I repeat, turn up the heat. Go all in. Your Daimon is calling you at your new heroic bat phone, which is 212451, 2000. Answer the call to your heroic adventure today.
