Stoicism overrated? With Brian Johnson

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re talking with the Philosopher CEO Brian Johnson. As the Founder and CEO of Heroic Public Benefit Corporation, Brian has raised over $25 million, achieved crowdfunding history, and developed two great social platforms

He's also the author of "Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential, which seamlessly integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools to help individuals excel in the ultimate game of life and fulfill your destiny.

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In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

Victim to Creator: How to use curiosity and courage to reframe where to put the blame.
Emotional Masterclass: when is it ok to be sad, show rage or hold grief.
Areté: What is it and how can you integrate it for a better life.

If you enjoyed this, go back and check out the episode we did with Leo Babauta, it has a bunch of crossover takeaways between Zen and Stoicism, you can find that as Ep#322 in this feed.

Brian’s brand new book is coming out on November 14th - Arete, You can find out more about the launch at heroic.us or check Brian out at @heroicbrian on Twitter & heroicbrian on Instagram.

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0:00.0	So the victim complains,
0:02.1	criticizes, gossips, frankly falls into cynicism and nihilism
0:06.8	than just wants to give up.
0:08.2	We all get hit, all of us, in our own idiosyncratic way.
0:11.5	We've all experienced trauma. we all are currently facing challenges
0:14.4	full stop. The shift between victim and creator is simple. Rather than complaining about all the
0:19.4	things you aren't getting, slow down, ask yourself, what do I want?
0:24.0	What is up you sexy stillics?
0:28.0	It is your boy Toga King, aka Rabbi Can't Lose,
0:31.0	aka No Kagan.
0:32.0	Today we are talking with my friend philosopher and CEO
0:34.9	Brian Johnson.
0:36.1	He's the founder and CEO of Heroic.US.
0:39.5	Brian has started two other social networking sites.
0:41.8	One of them is called Zads and he has sold
0:43.2	him as well as he's raised over 25 million dollars in crowdfunding which is one of the
0:47.9	largest amounts in history. He's got a new book out called Arete totally butchering
0:52.4	that but it is about activating your heroic potential,
0:55.6	which we're gonna, I'm gonna poke on him about this because I think this is really interesting.
0:59.1	And his book specifically is about ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools to survive and excel in today's world.
1:06.2	So we have a really good conversation that has a lot of back and forth about WU-WU and what are actually
1:10.8	true principles to fulfilling an extraordinary life.
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