Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential

“always overload. Always put more energy, more focus, more power into the situation than seemed necessary. It was the only way to guarantee success in the face of uncertainty and doubt.”

If you feel so inspired, now might be a good time to pause for a moment and ask yourself: What’s the ONE thing I KNOW I could be doing that, if I started doing it TODAY would most change my life?

What do most people do when they feel a little off or overwhelmed? They STOP doing the very things that would have kept them plugged in and capable of showing up powerfully. Not us. The WORSE we feel, the MORE committed we are to our protocols. This is your ticket to invincibility. You’ll still have ups and downs because you’re human, but… Your hig

In that class, we talk about a concept scientists call “interleaving.” The basic idea is simple: If you want to learn something, you’re better off varying your practice rather than grooving one identical rep after another.

How do we build “intense trust” in ourselves? The same way we build trust in any relationship: We DO what we say we will do.

Take a hard look at the institutions that form the foundation of modern society. Government, education, the church, science, finance, media, medicine, the judiciary, etc. In every area there is a lack of discipline, leadership, and transparency. This

“You need to live with ARETÉ.” “You remember what that means?!” Him: “Sort of…” Me: “It’s an ancient Greek word. We translate it into English as ‘virtue’ or ‘excellence,’ but it has a deeper meaning. Something closer to ‘expressing the best version of yourself moment to moment to moment.’”

Just the way a seed holds inside it the potential to become a tree, every human being has a soul that holds inside it a vision of a future self. But that vision won’t emerge by itself. Your soul has to be trained until it is strong enough to have an impact on the world.

THAT is the ultimate game we’re all playing all day every day. When we close the gap and choose to do the things that help us show up as the best version of ourselves, we feel a deep sense of joy.” “The ancient Greek and Stoic philosophers had a word for that as well. They called it eudaimonia.”