405: Lessons Learned from Reading Over 1,000 Personal Growth Books with Brian Johnson

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What was the first personal development book you ever read? How did it impact you? For me, it was How to Win Friends & Influence People when I was 19 years old. It introduced me to the concepts of personal growth and personal development. It kickstarted my first career and was the catalyst for my decision to dedicate myself to lifelong personal development.

My friend, Brian Johnson, embodies this at the highest level. He has read over 1,000 books related to philosophy and personal development. You may also remember Brian from The Miracle Morning Movie (he was the expert in the "Reading" scene), or you might know him as the creator of Philosopher's Notes (where I first discovered him) or the founder of Optimize. Most recently, he is the founder and CEO of Heroic.

In this conversation, Brian and I share the most valuable lesson(s) we've learned from reading over 1,000 personal development books.

Key Takeaways

The book that changed Brian's life when he was 21.
The single most valuable lesson that stands out more than any other from all the books Brian has read.
The value of what Brian calls "antifragile confidence" and why so many personal development junkies fail to make what they read part of their daily practice.
The value of living your life in 30-day challenges and installing habits that can run on autopilot.
How to get free access to 600 book summaries at Optimize.me/Hal

Get The Full Show Notes

To get full access to today's show notes, including audio, transcript, and links to all the resources mentioned, visit HalElrod.com/405

Subscribe, Rate & Review

I would love if you could subscribe to the podcast and leave an honest rating & review. This will encourage other people to listen and allow us to grow as a community. The bigger we get as a community, the bigger the impact we can have on the world.

To subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on iTunes, visit HalElrod.com/iTunes.

Connect with Hal Elrod

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.2	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you
0:23.8	a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.2	Ready?
0:30.2	Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast.
0:33.2	This is your host, Hal Elrod, and thank you so much for being here today.
0:37.6	You will be glad that you listened to this episode.
0:39.9	I promised you.
0:40.9	I just wrapped up what was arguably the best conversation I have ever had with anyone on
0:46.8	the podcast.
0:48.0	And it's with Brian Johnson.
0:49.0	Brian is someone who I've been a fan of.
0:51.2	I've admired for over a decade.
0:53.4	I used to be one of his customers when he had his philosophers notes program and then that
0:57.8	became his optimized program here a little bit about that today because it's free now.
1:01.2	It used to be like a hundred bucks a year and now it's free.
1:04.0	So we'll talk about that briefly.
1:05.5	But the point is I was a huge fan of Brian's and then one day my buddy Matt came up to
1:11.9	me at a conference.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hal Elrod, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Hal Elrod and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.