This content was created by Brian Johnson. This content was uploaded by Brian Johnson. This is a YouTube video titled "Reaching your highest potential" created on July 16, 2023, featuring Brian Johnson discussing the concept of closing the gap between one's potential and current self to achieve a state of eudaimonia, as described by Aristotle.
There's always going to be more potentiality. But this idea that you're capable of being this. If you were capable of being this, and you're being this, and there's that gap between who you could have been and who you are being, or who you could be and who you are being. In that gap exists anxiety, depression, disillusionment, et cetera. Good news the moment you close the gap. In that moment, there's no room for anxiety, regret, depression, disillusionment. Now, you still might have a lot of work to do to figure out and clean up your life. But the moment you flip the switch and turn on the light and you are being your best self, you are, from my vantage point, heroic. Aristotle would say you experience eudaimonia, which is that deep sense of joy and flourishing, knowing that you're living in integrity with your highest ideals.
