Heroism: A Philosophical Framework For Understanding Human Nature
There is an optimal state of human consciousness that delivers peak performance and wellbeing.
Everyone is born with talent and the desire to unleash it. When you access the optimal state of human consciousness, your talent instantaneously flows through your decisions and actions.
The conditions for the flow state of consciousness are: unshakable faith in yourself, audacity in the face of uncertainty, and integrity in the face of temptation and distraction.
Talent gets wasted when people get distracted. The most common distractions are uncertainty, self doubt, and loss aversion, followed by status and acceptance, comfort and safety, and meaningless, momentary pleasures.
Wasted talent leads to a life of regret, resentment, despair, and destruction.
Human beings will sacrifice everything for their highest priority
If you devote your time and attention to your non-negotiable priorities, you will remove temptations and distractions from your schedule.
Your conscience will reveal your non-negotiable priorities. It is that authentic alignment that makes them non-negotiable. Your conscience is the voice that calls on you to be your most authentic, most courageous, most extraordinary self, and calls you out when you fall short. Your conscience emanates from your talent, and points in the direction of your talent’s optimal expression. It is your compass during times of uncertainty.
The struggle at the core of human life is the wrestling match between your conscience and distraction. Set your conscience up for success by making decisions about the devotion of your time and attention in advance, because your time and attention are the mechanisms that transform your talent into skill and peak performance. Set your conscience up for success by setting boundaries around your time and attention and by defending those boundaries.
Integrity is the ability to align your decisions and your actions with your conscience.
Integrity is the precursor to flow. Flow is the precursor to wellbeing.
Collaboration is the human super power. Competition is a useful training tool. Prioritize collaboration over competition.
Everyone needs someone who treats them like their talent matters. Set your conscience up for success by recruiting a community of people who believe in your talent and believe in your quest.
There are people who will attempt to hijack your time, attention, and priorities. Don’t get captured by those people.
The quest for the optimal expression of your talent leads to a life of meaning and fulfillment that contributes to the wellbeing of your community.
Be the hero of your own journey. Follow your conscience, no matter the obstacle and no matter the sacrifice. Never surrender your quest for the optimal expression of your talent.
This is an invitation to build culture and community around this philosophy. This philosophy is a translation of the symbolism of the hero stories that you know and love. You love those stories because you want to live as your heroes live. Now you can.
What is the most effective strategy for living a life of meaning and fulfillment that contributes to the wellbeing of your community? We recommend Heroism as the most effective strategy anyone can follow. Be the hero of your own journey. Follow your conscience, no matter the obstacle and no matter the sacrifice. Never surrender your quest for the optimal expression of your talent.
Is there some other strategy that you would like to follow that you believe would be more effective? What strategy have you been following so far? How much peak performance and wellbeing has that strategy delivered to your daily life?
The embodiment of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. More desirable results require more effective behaviors. More effective behaviors require higher levels of understanding. Higher levels of understanding require the insights and experiences that elevate your perspective.
If you didn’t know, now you know. Now that you know, what are you going to do about it? Is it all a dream? Or is it your destiny?