Archive | March, 2011

What Have You Done Today?

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking, Lifestyle Design

From a commenter on Clarifying “Uncertainty over Unhappiness” (link)

Anthony I think this is a story you will like to hear.

 

This happened two days ago. Me and one of my good friends (or so i thought) moved to British Columbia with his money that he had inherited from a relative (90 thousand dollars) . As far as i was concerned it was me and him alone in BC. i didn’t know anyone but him.

 

At first it was all good we had a great time and we partied it up for the first few days. Then we had to look for a place to live and do some serious things. Shit turned sour and me being the friend who had no power what so ever was in grave danger. He was not the person i thought he was, not even close!. So i sucked it up and took the abuse. I would argue and not go quietly over some of…

Drew Baye and I Take on the World — And Win

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise, Independent Thinking, Interviews, Nutrition

Two time speaker of The 21 Convention and star of The Community Tapes Drew Baye, and I, were interviewed for over an hour on the DayGame.com Podcast by Andy Yosha.

Topics include but are not limited to,

  • Exercise
  • Nutrition
  • The 21 Convention
  • Self-actualization
  • Self-esteem
  • Approaching your fullest potential

I’m really happy with how it went, and I think everyone will enjoy it thoroughly.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

Enjoy.

– Anthony Dream Johnson

A New Category: Event Architecture

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Event Architecture

Tim Ferriss’s claim to fame term was “lifestyle design“. Pretty catchy if you ask me.

Well, I have a new one, that I think suits me better, in my journey to conquer the world — to take on the world, and win.

Event Architecture

I am the Chief Event Architect of the #1 convention for young men in the world — not to mention the first, best, and largest. So, it only makes sense that I stake claim to this term — in addition to holding Ayn Rand’s depiction of fictional architect Howard Roark as an extremely, almost eerily accurate description of my self.

This new term is also going to serve as a new category on this blog, as a hybrid between wealth and The 21 Convention. Basically, I am going to start blogging more about what goes on behind the scenes of T21C. What it takes to build, what it took to build, and what it continues to require of me.

I’ll reveal some numbers, and not…

Clarifying “Uncertainty over Unhappiness”

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Curtis Noll, Independent Thinking, Lifestyle Design

In my 2010 Stockholm speech I discussed unhappiness and uncertainty, and how I chose uncertainty over unhappiness — when it mattered most, and when I was not getting the details right (when I was screwing stuff up).

I will clarify what I mean by this today — choosing uncertainty over unhappiness.

Clarify because I see it as necessary to get my ultimate point across, because I have come to further understand the gravity of what I was saying … and because I have come to understand that this is one of the greatest gifts my best friend gave me before his death — and that this is an expression of the greatest sensation man can experience.

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When James Galt II chose uncertainty over unhappiness (in regards to a work related decision if I’m not mistaken), little did he know, I think, that in the process of choosing “uncertainty”, he was choosing his own certainty.

He chose to…

20 Pages of Notes on Dr. McGuff’s Speech

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise, Nutrition

Tim Horine from http://www.menspsychology.com/ wrote 20 pages of notes on Dr. McGuff’s speech. They are below as was sent to me (which is raw and not edited for grammar/spelling). I’m assuming they are pretty awesome regardless. Cheers. Oh, and here is the speech if you haven’t seen it yet.

 

T21C Day 3 July 25th 2010: Doug McGuff

 

“Doug is one of the wisest men of our time, and so underappreciated and undervalued, its almost indescribable.” – Anthony Dream Johnson.

 

Doug did HIT 3 times/week during college, medschool, upper 30s

 

1) have the opportunity to hear it

2) to actually have listened to it

it would have been amazing how much Doug’s Life would have progressed.

 

Arthur Jones Nautilus HIT training camp, but it was 15-20 different movements, 3 days/week through college, medschool, residency, late 30s early 40s, and felt like hammered dogshit.

-If he knew the minimal amount necessary to trigger adaptive response and get enough rest.

All of his life would have been much more enjoyable in a recovered state.

 

Everything that…