Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

The power of consistency.

25 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue by Brian Johnson emphasizing the transformative power of consistency for long-term goals and self-mastery. Johnson uses a mathematical metaphor (energy × focus × consistency) to show how high energy and focus produce large results only when applied consistently; he contrasts sporadic bursts (consistency=0) that erase gains with modest-but-regular effort that compounds into large outcomes. He urges listeners to improve consistency rather than give up, and jokingly notes that extreme compounding (100×100×100 to the power of 100) is effectively infinite.

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The beautiful dynamic dance of the longer term vision. What you feel called to do connected to this moment right now. Energy, work and love energy focused on what's important now to the power of consistency. You can't do it once in a while. If you take 100 energy times 100, focus times 100, what's important now, you get a million. That's exciting. But if you do it to the power of zero consistency, that million goes back to one. And paradoxically, you feel worse now because now you know what it feels like to feel alive. But you don't have the self mastery mastery to do it consistently. So then you really feel the gap. Perfect. Don't give up. Just get your consistency up and hit your targets. You can have 10-10-10. Your energy could suck, your focus could be kind of sort of okay, and you're kind of sort of focusing on what's important now, but you do it consistently. That math I haven't done in a while. It's a big number. If you take 100, 100, 100, a million, and you put that to the power of 100. The answer, as I've said a number of times, if you put it into a Google calculator, is infinity.