Brian Johnson shares a coaching session with Phil Stutz about the mantra "the long game is the short game." The idea: showing up with excellence in each moment prevents quitting, so long-term success depends on how you play right now. Johnson ties this to his goal of helping 51% of humanity flourish by 2051.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. In our last plus one we talked about one of my recent sessions with Phil Stutz. It was approaching one on one coaching session number 451, and it was one of our best. I could barely keep up with the wisdom bombs Yoda was dropping as we discussed the importance of embracing and how to embrace life's inevitable pain, uncertainty and constant work. As you may recall, we had fun with a couple of new mantras, I love poo and I love puke to capture the power of embracing life's inevitable pain, uncertainty and hard slash constant work. Yes, I'm easily amused, and yes, I found the long U and hard C and silent W of P U C W puke amusing. Today I want to chat about the very last thing I wrote down on my 11th and final page of notes from that epic session. Phil and I were talking about heroic and how we're approaching things strategically, along with the importance of maintaining purity and what Phil calls goodwill as we play the long game in pursuit of fulfilling our mission to help create a world in which 51% of humanity is flourishing by the year 2051. Then Phil told me the long game is the short game. To which I asked, what? Why? To which he said, because if you're not playing the long game, then somewhere along the line you'll quit. And that's today's plus one. Play the long game, then show up with Arete moment to moment to moment, especially when you don't feel like it. That's the fastest way to win the ultimate game and every other game you care about.
