Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

What an NCAA Championship Winning Baseball Coach Says About Areté and Heroic

14 Feb 2024 · 2 min

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A short testimonial by an NCAA championship-winning baseball coach praising Brian Johnson's upcoming book (Areté) and the Heroic app. The speaker says the book will be released in seven days, describes the book's short lessons (1–4 pages), and strongly recommends the app for coaches—noting Johnson has read about 650 books and that the app provides 6–12 page 'cliff notes' summaries. The speaker reports using the app for ~three weeks and urges coaches and leaders to try it.

Questions this video answers

About 650 books.

Approximately 6 to 12 pages long.

About three weeks.

In seven days (relative to the recording).

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What's your favorite book behind you? Of all those books behind you, let me tell you my new favorite book. All right. Jump on it. Yep. All right. There's a lot of them behind me. This is my new favorite book. This is by Brian Johnson. Okay. This is going to be released in seven days. Okay. And Brandon Geier talks about Arete. Yes. This is, this is a must have. Okay. Not only the book, Brian Johnson has an app, okay. That's called Heroic. And I cannot promote this enough. I've never met Brian Johnson. I've done my research on him and who he influences. But there is an app out there called Heroic that is the best app as a coach that I have ever seen. I wish Brian would start, had started this app 20 years ago. Okay. But it is amazing. I would encourage any coach to check out Heroic Brian Johnson. This is an awesome book. It's, you know, there's, there's short stories, lessons that are either 1, 2, 4 pages long in it. And the app is amazing. I mean, this Guy has read 650 books about, you know, leadership, team development, motivation, sleep, nutrition, whatever it is that we deal with as coaches, and has essentially written cliff notes for each book. So you can go in and read his cliff notes. Those cliff notes are anywhere from 6 to 12 pages long about the lessons within the book. And I've had the app on my phone for about three weeks and I just absolutely love it. And I impress upon anybody that's a coach, that's a leader to get dialed into this thing.