Optimize your life the philosopher's way with Brian Johnson

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Expert, Ben, 40, Pakulski, Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Intelligence, Biohacking, Mi, Intelligent, Mi40, Nutrition, Diet, Hormones, Muscle, Exercise

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode with Brian Johnson, founder of the Optimize community, is packed full of inspiration, positivity, and tangible plans for a happier, calmer, more joy-filled life. Brian discusses his four main virtues (wisdom, self-mastery, courage, and love); he talks about what truly means to be a hero, and what it means to have "anti-fragile confidence"; they discuss the differences between being happy and simply being "not negative"; and Brian gets into his meditation practice, his experience with veganism, his philosophies on leadership, and so much more!

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Timestamps

[1:34] Introducing our guest, Brian Johnson.

[7:02] Backstory to Brian’s motivation to succeed.

[10:53] Brian’s comparison of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius & Seneca.

[12:15] How Brian summarizes his philosophy.

[14:33] How to start living at Eudaimonia – The Highest Good

[17:17] YOU determine what Vice; Virtue & Wisdom is.

[18:15] Four core virtues of philosophy and all the religions in the world.

[21:56] How to plan your day as a Eudaimon.

[26:18] The More You Get Hit, The Stronger You Get!

[28:04] How hard one should push themselves in training.

[30:52] What you do, speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say – R. W. Emerson.

[33:07] Love 0.0, Love 1.0, Love 2.0…

[36:32] Philosophy is simplicity – Brian’s daily routine.

[41:01] Nanotechnology Structured Water & its benefits.

[43:52] Brian’s breathing meditation practice.

[46:05] Brian talking about his coach and mentor – Phil Stutz.

[50:05] How Brian is helping people through the Optimize Coach Program.

[54:26] Brian’s experience with Veganism.

[56:50] What is Brian’s end line – distant plans.

[1:00:28] Change begins at home!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Muscle Intelligence Podcast.
0:10.3	I'm your host, Ben Pocoski.
0:11.4	So imagine me in 2007, 13 years ago, prior to being a professional bodybuilder,
0:17.4	living the typical fitness life of training a lot, eating a lot, and probably stressing way more
0:23.4	than most people do, having high aspirations for what I'm going to do with my life, but having no
0:28.8	idea how I'm going to do it. And I stumble upon a coach who suggests that I start to read,
0:35.7	that I start to meditate, that I start to question my words,
0:38.8	the words that I use on a day-to-day basis, the words that come out of my mouth, which ultimately
0:42.5	is an indication of my beliefs, absolutely changed my life. And that coach sent me down the path
0:52.6	of the gentleman that we are interviewing today.
0:56.5	So in 2007, when I started reading, I started taking a huge interest in consuming as many books as I could, as many audios as I could.
1:04.2	But it was difficult at times to know which books to read.
1:09.1	And I was very new to this whole self-help, if you will, space,
1:13.6	this whole personal development space. So I came across a website called Philosopher's Notes.
1:21.2	If any of you've heard of Philosopher's Notes on YouTube, you know exactly who we're speaking with
1:25.7	today. And this guy was an absolute wealth of information.
1:31.0	And I thought his business model was incredibly brilliant. And Brian Johnson joins me today to tell us
1:37.0	about his evolution from Philosopher's Notes on YouTube of reading a single book a day and giving
1:42.7	us a summary of the five biggest
1:44.5	takeaways in 10 minutes or less, something that ultimately has changed my life and changed a
1:49.5	lot of lives. So it allowed me to dig into any number of books. And he really read the best
1:56.4	books that exist and then determine if it was a great book for me to go deeper and read.
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