Brian Johnson defines Soul Force as Energy times Focus times WIN (What's Important Now), all raised to the power of Consistency. Raise your energy through sleep, movement, and nutrition, focus it on what matters now, and repeat. Consistency exponentially magnifies everything.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Arete plus one Degree. Another micro chapter from our new book, Arete Activate youe heroic potential. 451 ideas, a thousand pages. Hope you enjoy. This micro chapter is called Soul Force. The equation how to activate your Soul Force. Soul Force. It's the superpower. All of our favorite heroes expressed their own idiosyncratic ways. Gandhi had it. In fact, as we just discussed, he named it Martin Luther King Jr. Had it. He even mentioned it in his I have a Dream speech. Winston Churchill had it. So did Eleanor Roosevelt and Florence Nightingale and Victor Frankl and Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. All of our favorite heroes had Soul Force. And most importantly, you have it. We just need to activate it. Which I repeat, is the entire point of all of our work together. Here's the Soul Force equation that will help us figure out how to activate it. Soul Force equals energy times focus times what's important now. All parentheses to the power of consistency. Now, from my perspective, if we want to activate our heroic Soul Force superpowers, we need to do three things at the highest possible level. First, we need to get our energy to truly heroic levels. Fact is, if we're not dominating our fundamentals, eating, moving, sleeping, breathing and focusing, and have a hard time getting out of bed because of poor lifestyle choices, we're going to have a really hard time showing up at our best in any aspect of our lives. Then we need to focus that energy on what's truly most important right now. Or as we like to say, on W I n win, which is short for what's important. Now. That's the first part of our Soul Force equation. Energy times focus times what's important. Now, again, parentheses around that, then we bring in the final and by far the most important variable, consistency. Know this. If you can only get yourself to get your energy focused on what's important now, once in a while, you will never actualize your potential. But if you can get yourself to show up consistently, you. You can tap into your infinite superpowers. Here's the quick math to prove the point. Let's say your energy focus win, consistency can be measured from 0 to 100. If you can get your energy to 100 and you're focused to 100 and put that focused energy on what's truly 100 level, most important, you'd have 100 times. 100 times 100 equals 1 million units of awesome. Nice work. Now it's time to bring in the exponentializing power of consistency. To use an extreme example, to make the point. If your consistency is a zero and you can only get yourself to show up at your best once in a while or insert whiny voice when you feel like it, your 1 million units of power raised to the power of zero will be reduced to one. But if you can consistently focus your energy on what's important now. You know what happens when we take the hundred times 100 times 100 equals 1 million units of awesome and raise it to the power of 100. Now, I can still remember the morning I typed this into the Google calculator. 100 times 100 times 100 equals 1 million. 1 million raised to the power of 100 is infinity. Want to activate your Soul Force and tap into your infinite superpowers? Dominate the fundamentals to get your energy to heroic levels. Eliminate distractions and learn to focus that energy like a laser beam on what's important now. Then do that consistently and you, my dear friend, will activate your heroic potential. Let's do that and change the world one person at a time together. Starting with you and me today.
