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+1: #1059 Your Most Profitable Journey

Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Release Date: 02/28/2020

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Matt Higgins, John Wooden, Yogananda, and Trevor Moawad.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Matt Higgins.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Matt Higgins, Napolean Hill, and Lanny Bassham.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Bob Rotella, Peter Drucker, and Tom Rath.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Bob Rotella, Bernard Roth, Angela Duckworth, John Wooden, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Bob Rotella and Bernard Roth.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Bob Rotella.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Angela Duckworth.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from Gabriel Oettingen and Heidi Grant Halvorson.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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Heroic with Brian Johnson | Activate Your Best. Every Day.

Today's +1 features wisdom from David Fideler, Seneca, and Yogananda.   Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market   Want access to more wisdom in time? Get access to over 1,500 +1's (just like this!) and 650+ Philosopher's Notes (distilling life-changing big ideas from the best self-development books ever written) and a LOT more with our Heroic Premium membership. Learn more and get 30 days free at https://heroic.us

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In our last +1, we hung out with a couple of Zenos—Emerson’s leopard gecko and the founder of Stoicism.
 
Side note: Every single time I look at our gecko I feel like I’m looking backwards in time. 
 
Fun fact: You know how long geckos have been around? Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London found geckos preserved in amber dating back 100 million years ago. (Wow.)
 
So…
 
Today we’re going to leave the leopard gecko in his terrarium and talk about the Stoic Zeno.
 
Apparently Zeno was a very successful merchant. One of my favorite things about the origin stories of Stoicism is the fact that he arrived in Athens via shipwreck.
 
In his brilliant introduction to Stoicism in his brilliant book How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Donald Robertson tells us: “Zeno told his students that he had come to value wisdom more than wealth or reputation. He used to say, ‘My most profitable journey began on the day I was shipwrecked and lost my entire fortune.’”
 
How epic is that? 
 
Shall we cue our Optimize choir of angels on that last line?!
 

“My most profitable journey began on the day I was shipwrecked and lost my entire fortune.”

 
Reminds me of Vernon Howard’s brilliant parallel wisdom: “If your grand purpose in life is to wake up, then whatever happens to you is good, for it can prod you into self-awakening.”
 
And: “If it takes apparent misfortune to turn us into true philosophers and doers of good to receive good, then apparent misfortune is our greatest fortune.”
 
That’s Today’s +1.
 
Experiencing any “apparent misfortune”? 
 
Here’s to holding that experience with a firm grip and alchemizing it into the most profitable experience of our lives.
 
TODAY.