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Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!) Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from Kristin Neff's "Self-Compassion". Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "Self-Compassion" and a 1-hour Self-Image 101 masterclass) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #selfimage #selfcompassion #compassion #wisdom #personaldevelopment #heroic

Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!) Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from Joe De Sena's "10 Rules for Resilience". Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "10 Rules for Resilience" and 1-hour Antifragile 101, Spartan Training 101, Fatherhood 101, and Mommahood 101 masterclasses - among others!) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #spartan #antifragile #fatherhood #motherhood #family #wisdom #personaldevelopment #heroic

Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!) Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from Ryan Holiday's "Discipline Is Destiny", Donald Miller's "Hero on a Mission" and Eleanor Roosevelt's "You Learn by Living". Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "Discipline Is Destiny", "Hero on a Mission", and "You Learn by Living" and 1-hour Stoicism 101 and Conquering Fear 101 masterclasses - among others!) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #stoicism #courage #fear #dis

Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!) Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" by John Gottman ( @TheGottmanInstitute ). Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" and a 1-hour Love 101 masterclass) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #love #relationships #bids #personaldevelopment #wisdom #heroic

Heroic: https://heroic.us  (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach  (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!) Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from "Trying Not to Try" by Edward Slingerland. Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "Trying Not to Try" and a 1-hour Masterpiece Days 101 masterclass) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us   About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #masterpieceday #wisdom #personaldevelopment #heroic

Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!)   Today's Heroic +1 is inspired by wisdom from "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "Atomic Habits" and a 1-hour Habits 101 masterclass) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us   About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #habits #consistency #wisdom #personaldevelopment #heroic

Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach ← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!)   Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from "Discipline is Destiny" by Ryan Holiday. Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "Discipline is Destiny" and a 1-hour Willpower 101 masterclass) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us    About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs  #ryanholiday #discipline #dailystoic #wisdom #personaldevelopment #heroic

Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!)   Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from "The Wim Hof Method" by Wim Hof. Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "The Wim Hof Method" and a 1-hour Optimal Breathing 101 masterclass) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us    About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #wimhofmethod #wimhof #coldexposure #breathing #wisdom #personaldevelopment #heroic

Heroic: https://heroic.us (← Get your first 14 days free) Heroic Coach: https://heroic.us/coach (← Join 12,500+ Heroes from 110+ Countries!)   Today's Heroic +1 features wisdom from "Take a Nap! Change Your Life" by Mark Ehrman and Sara Mednick. Get more wisdom in less time (including Big Idea highlights of "Take a Nap! Change Your Life"and a 1-hour Sleep 101 masterclass) with a Heroic Premium membership. Start a FREE 7-day premium trial here: http://heroic.us   About Heroic: Heroic integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and practical tools into a beautifully-designed app to help activate your best. Premium Heroic members have access to 600+ of the absolute greatest personal development books distilled into 25-min PhilosophersNotes and 50+ hour-long masterclasses on all areas of a flourishing life. SUBSCRIBE: https://bit.ly/3EF3hQs #sleep #napping #wisdom #personaldevelopment #heroic

“Shutdown Complete!” for the Target Swipe Win   Steven Pressfield is one of my all-time favorite writers.   In addition to being a brilliant writer of both fiction and non-fiction, he’s a good human being. You can feel his wisdom and humility and realness with every word he writes.   We’ve featured SIX of his brilliant books on the creative process including: The War of Art, Do the Work, Turning Pro, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, The Artist’s Journey and his most recent book: Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be.   Check out all those Notes if you want to learn more about how I approach the creative process. You can also check out Creativity 101 and the collection of Notes on the subject.   As you know if you’re familiar with Pressfield and his style, his books are both inspiring and beautifully pithy.    btw: I just looked that word up. Yep. His books are the very definition of pithy: “concise and forcefully expressive.” I read his latest book in an hour and fifteen minute

If All You Did Today Was This…   In our last couple +1s, we talked about my Top 3 Work targets and then we talked about my #1 Target: “Recommitting to my Sacred Vow.”     As you may recall, these are my Top 3 Heroic Work Targets:   I. Recommit to Sacred Vow (101 | 1M | 51 2051) II. #1 WIN III. Shut-down Complete   Which begs the question…   What are YOUR Top 3 Work Targets?   I. ______________________ II. _____________________ III. _____________________   Quick check in…   Have you taken a moment or three to reflect on that?    If not, why not?    Seriously…    We’re trying to move from Theory to Practice to Mastery, Hero!!    Let’s GOOO!!!   Now…   Today I want to chat about my #2 Heroic Work Target.   Right after I reread and recommit to my Sacred Vow and BEFORE I allow ANY inputs into my life (no email, no smartphone, no inputs yet!), I decide what THE MOST IMPORTANT THING is that I’m going to do that day and then… I DO IT.    And…   As I like to say, if that was all I

The Foundation for Greatness   In our last +1, I shared my Sacred Vow with you.   Then I encouraged YOU to consider creating your own Sacred Vow.   Today I want to continue that discussion.   We’ll invite Daisaku Ikeda to the party. He is the leader of Nichiren Buddhism and one of the most respected Buddhist philosophers alive whose work has inspired millions around the world.   In Buddhism Day by Day he tells us about the importance of making a vow.   Here’s how he puts it: “In any field of endeavor, making a vow is the foundation for achieving something great. If for whatever reason a person gives up halfway or backslides, his or her commitment hasn’t been based on a vow. Halfhearted desire doesn’t amount to a vow.”   Vow.   It means “a solemn promise.”   It’s on the far right side of the spectrum of kinda sorta committed to ABSOLUTELY ALL IN (!) committed.        (Kinda sorta)                                                                 (VOW = ALL IN)    A vow.   A solemn pro

Here’s Mine… What’s YOURS?   In our last +1, we talked about my Top 3 Work Targets as I encouraged you to get clarity on and then commit to and hit YOUR top 3 targets.    These are my Top 3 Work Targets:   I. Recommit to Sacred Vow (101 | 1M | 51 2051) II. #1 WIN III. Shutdown Complete   What are YOUR Top 3 Work Targets?   I. ______________________ II. _____________________ III. _____________________   Today I want to chat a little more about my  #1 Work target: Recommitting to my Sacred Vow.    I have done this EVERY DAY for over a year and a half. It has been an incredibly powerful thing for me and I’ve been told by many people that it’s inspired them to create their own Sacred Vow so…   Let’s chat a little more about it.   But…   First, a little more context.    As you know if you’ve been following along, on election night 2020, I founded Heroic Public Benefit Corporation.    A couple days later I learned that the crowdfunding regulations were changing such that startups like ours could go

What Are YOURS?   Not too long ago, we talked about my Top 3 Energy Targets.    As you may recall, I said that it’s really hard to have a series of really bad days when I hit my Top 3 Energy Targets.    These are my Top 3 Energy Targets:   I. In Bed for 9-10 Hours II. AM Meditation (1%) III. Movement (30 Min)   (What are YOURS?)   Today I want to chat about my Top 3 Work Targets.    Here they are:   I. Recommit to Sacred Vow (101 | 1M | 51 2051) II. #1 WIN III. Shutdown Complete   Note: If ALL I did in any given day was hit THOSE three Targets, I’d have a pretty good day. Period.    I repeat: The early research on hitting as few as three Targets on our Heroic app shows that you can boost your Energy by 40%, your Productivity by 20% and your Connection by 15%.   And, I repeat with even more emphasis: The extensive research on “checklists” in general is unequivocal: Checklists work.    Whether we’re talking about pilots or surgeons or athletes or construction managers or aspiring Heroes

13.8 Billion Years Ago to NOW   In our last couple +1s, we talked about the Sun and the next-closest star, appropriately named Proxima Centauri.    We did some quick math and realized that the Universe is insanely vast (yes, that’s the technical description) and that 99.999% of the Universe consists of… ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.   Imagining the ineffable VASTNESS of our Universe should help us get a little perspective on our lives.     Today I want to chat about just how OLD the Earth and the Sun and our Universe are.    Why?   In addition to being a fascinating intellectual exercise, it is, as Michael Singer points out in Living Untethered, an equally powerful SPIRITUAL exercise.    So…   Do you know how long ago the Universe was created?   Somehow, scientists are able to peg the number at around 13.8 BILLION years ago.    Think about that. Out of nothing came something.    13.8 BILLION YEARS AGO.    My brain just exploded. !!   Now…   Next question.    Do you know how old the Earth

For 4.2 Years Just to Get to the Next Star   In our last +1, we used the Sun as a trigger/prompt/cue to practice our philosophy and put the virtues of gratitude and humility and awe into action.    As you may recall, we reflected on the fact that the Sun is a STAGGERING 93 MILLION (!) miles away.    Somehow, its rays are so powerful that, even after taking 8 minutes and 20 seconds to arrive on planet Earth, you can soak up their warmth and beauty.    I don’t know about you, but I think that’s CRAZY when you think about it.    But here’s what’s even crazier.    I casually mentioned the fact that the next closest star (Proxima Centauri) is 4.2 light years away.    You know how far that is?   Neither did I until I read Michael Singer’s book Living Untethered in which he walks us through the creation of the Universe and some physics lessons to help us get perspective on our lives.    Get this.    Imagine holding a flashlight above the Earth. Turn it on for ONE second.    That light will go aro

93 Million Miles + 8 Minutes 20 Seconds   This morning I was on the Trail moving for 30 minutes.    I banged out my last couple sets of 11 burpees to hit my 101 for the day. I jumped up to hang from the tree branch that is my pull-up bar to hammer out my 11 pull-ups. I rowed my 1,000 meters to hit that Target.    Target swipe.   Target swipe.   Target swipe.   Target swipe.   Target swipe.     I know I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again….   It’s truly amazing to me how good I feel hitting those Heroic targets in our app every.single.day.    “That’s like me!! Forging Antifragile confidence. TODAY.”   But that’s not quite the point of Today’s +1.    This is…   As I was turning the corner on our trail, I was struck by the beauty and warmth of the sunlight peeking through the trees and, at the risk of getting Rumi about it, I felt the Sun gently caressing my mind and body and soul.    It was a beautiful moment.    I was in awe.    Then I looked up at the Sun and thought to myself, “Wow.

From Doing the Right Thing for the Win!   In our last few +1s, we’ve been talking about The Law of Cause and Effect.   We started with Michael Singer’s wisdom. Then we went old school with Jesus and Epictetus.    I promised we’d talk about what modern SCIENCE has to say about applying the basic ideas of The Law of Cause and Effect to the process of optimizing our lives.   That’s what we’ll do Today.   But…   First…   As we journey back from 2,000 years ago to today, let’s pause briefly and see what another one of my favorite teachers had to say about the subject.   In 1841, the great American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay called “Compensation” in which he did his thing by integrating wisdom from the East with our Western perspective.   He tells us: “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”   Yep.    There you go.   The Law of Cause and Effec