Brian Johnson narrates a micro-chapter from his Arete +1 series (based on his book Arete: Activate Your Heroic Potential), highlighting an idea from Tripp Lanier’s book This Book Will Make You Dangerous. The piece uses astronomical scale (1.3 million Earths fit inside the Sun; shrinking analogies; Hubble deep-field: 10 days of exposure revealing ~3,000 galaxies) to argue that everyday dramas are small in the context of the universe, encouraging listeners to "zoom out" for perspective and then "zoom in" to enjoy life.
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451 ideas.
1.3 million Earths.
10 days.
3,000 galaxies.
This Book Will Make You Dangerous by Tripp Lanier.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Arete plus one Degree, a micro chapter from my new book, Arete Activate youe heroic potential.451 ideas in the book. Here's one of my favorites.
You're not a big deal.
And that's a liberatingly big deal. My friend Tripp Lanier is a very funny guy. In his book this Book Will make youe Dangerous, he shares some of the wisdom he's acquired coaching mostly guys for the last 15 plus years.
If you or the man in your.
Life like to laugh deeply at some irreverent humor while joyfully activating your heroic potential, then I think you'll enjoy his irreverent guide for men who refuse to settle the Tripp tells us that we need to drop the nonsense and get to work experiencing the things we really want. More freedom, aliveness, love, and peace. Now, in a chapter entitled Find the Fun, Tripp echoes Michael Singer's perspective building wisdom in the microchapter.
You're not a big deal.
Here's how he puts it, and I quote Tripp when we think of big, and I mean really big, we usually think of the Sun. It's massive, right? In fact, you could fit 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun. Let that sink in. But according to astronomer and scientist Michel Thaler, if you were to shrink the sun down to the size of the dot in this letter I right there on the page, that tiny little dot. If you made the sun that big, then the relative size of our galaxy, the Milky Way, would be the size of the Earth. Take a minute to visualize that. But let's not stop there. A while back, astronomers found a tiny section of the night sky that appeared to be empty. And tiny means the size of the head of a pin. If you held it out at arm's length, if you were to hold that tiny pinhead up to the sky, then that little, tiny portion of the sky appeared completely void of celestial light. So they focused the Hubble telescope up there and let it absorb light for 10 days. And in that tiny, tiny, dark part of the night sky, which looked completely empty, they ended up discovering 3,000 galaxies. So what does this all mean? You, me, all of us are daily crises and dramas and getting upset because the barista Forgot to put 3.5 soy vegan sprinkles in our lattes. When we start to imagine this massive.
Universal perspective, we start to see that no matter what we are thinking or.
Doing, it's really just not that big of a deal.
And it never will be.
End quote. Pause. Reflect. That's our plus one degree.
We're not a big deal.
And that's a really liberatingly big, big deal.
Let's zoom out far enough to see.
That all those daily crises and dramas just aren't a big deal, period. Then let's zoom back in and enjoy this precious life of ours today.
