Key ideas based on Brian Johnson's PhilosopherNotes:
Self Actualization
Everyone has an impulse to self actualize.....to maximize their potential and become all that they can be.
The form this takes is unique to the person (no one is called to be great in the same way, it depends on your unique gifts and talents).
This impulse is an end itself, not a means to an end (you don't become your best just to get more money or to get people to like you).
The Eight Areas of Focus
1. Create a vision.
2. Turn adversity into advantage.
3. Cultivate a champion’s mind-set.
4. Develop hustle.
5. Master your body.
6. Practice positive habits.
7. Build a winning team.
8. Be of service to others.”
Write Your Goals Down
“A powerful vision emerges when we couple our dreams with a set of clear goals.”
Define Your Perfect Day, Which will Lead You to Achieve Your Goals
If we want to actualize our vision, we need to string together enough perfect days:
How do I want every day to look?
How do I want to feel every single day?
What am I creating daily?
Whom am I spending time with?
What places am I exposing myself to?
What passions am I fulfilling?”
“The most successful, fulfilled, and vision-focused individuals in the world have daily rituals and habits to which they attribute a significant amount of their success.”
Turn Adversity into an Opportunity
If you want to self actualize, there will be adversity on the way....embrace it, and meet it head on. Overcoming adversity is what make great people great.
“Greatness is really the survival of your vision across an extended timeline, based on your willingness to do whatever it takes in the face of adversity and to adopt the mind-set to seize opportunity wherever it lives.”
Hustle (Action, Action, Action)
"You have to chase opportunity.......That is the essence of hustle in the pursuit of greatness—doing whatever it takes and chasing opportunity with great urgency—like your life depends on it."