Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

Breath + Heroes + Virtues + Stillness + Quest   In our last +1, we talked about my new Heroic Mantra Meditation practice.    Our one-word mantra?   Areté.    On the inhale…   Areté. Areté. Areté.    On the exhale.    Areté. Areté. Areté.   Repeat.    I actually came up with that idea while rowing. I paused the workout on my ol’ Suunto watch, went into the house, grabbed my batphone (that I use for offline/deep work mode stuff like this), and wrote that +1.    Then I got back to my workout. And started repeating my mantra.    ARETE. ARETE. ARETE.    Today I want to chat about my Heroic Meditation practice.    Nearly every day in the 18+ months after I founded Heroic, I meditated for an hour every morning. The connection I felt with my daimon and our Heroic vision has been GREATLY enhanced from the practice.    Here’s the Heroic meditation I created. You can make it work in as little as 3 minutes.    With VERY rare exceptions, I meditate at the same time every morning: right after I get up.