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Archive | July, 2011
A Commitment to the Facts of Reality
I think a lot of people have a very inaccurate view of me. Very, very inaccurate. They think I don’t make mistakes, when in fact I have made a very great many mistakes over the course of my adult life. I would not be surprised if I made more mistakes over the past 4 years than the next 100 22 year old males combined — TDL readers excluded 
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The point not being though that it’s desirable to, well, fuck up, but a necessary (and beneficial) consequence of life on earth as a man — an ideal life of and by the ideal man.
One of continual growth, of step by step, inch by inch progress towards your best and highest potential.
Mistakes naturally being lessons to learn from.
In the end, man should hold reason as his absolute, and always execute his actions based on the knowledge gained from that process — all available knowledge, to the best and highest of his ability.
This is not a process with perfect results –…
Radio Interview on WGN Chicago
This is a radio interview I did on WGN Chicago last week just before The 21 Convention 2011 of Orlando Florida. Unexpected and last minute as it was I think this is the biggest bit of media exposure I have ever had — and the best I have ever performed in. The host, Bill Less, asks some really, really good questions, and in spite of the proximity to the live event and corresponding level of stress I was under during that time, I nailed every single one just the way I wanted to.
Topics that prelude future posts on TDL in this interview include psychological mirrors, the ideal man, and romantic love and intimate relationships.
– Anthony Dream Johnson
ps — right click and “save as” on the link to download the interview in .mp3 format.
James Steele II & Anthony Johnson Q and A Panel
“Anthony Johnson, founder and architect of The 21 Convention, teams up with James Steele II — a PhD student at Southampton Solent University and champion lower back pain researcher — to form a question and answer panel on exercise, nutrition, and health at The 21 Convention 2011 of London England.”
Visit James at http://jamessteeleii.blogspot.com/
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James and I cover a pretty broad range of topics in this panel. It will be a welcomed review for any long time blog readers, and a welcome wake up call in exercise and nutrition who are new to this blog and not yet familiar with the ideas James and I discuss in this video.
You can also view my stand alone speech on exercise and nutrition here.
“Convention set to define the Ideal Man”
Check out a preview interview for The 21 Convention in Orlando. My interview was done in person. Steve Mayeda is also mentioned in the article (interview performed via phone).
Convention set to define the ideal man.
While the article is a bit typical of newspapers for something like this, the title is dead on, which tells me that the reporter was actually able to and did in fact keep up with what I was telling him.
And just wait till you see what I got comin boys — a manifesto greater than anything I have ever written.
I also recommend checking out this interview on Flow of Soma. Some of my answers were lost in translation due to the coffee shop setting and language barrier, but none the less, this should prove interesting to long time TDLers.
Surprise
This is my opening speech in London. I went into it, quite literally, on zero hours of sleep. I did this on purpose as an experiment. While I won’t be repeating that experiment in sleep deprivation, it did have the desired effect of pushing me to my limits psychologically during this speech — or in other words, performing my best specifically because of the highest amount of stress possible (induced both by the event, which is to be expected, as well as purposefully via sleep deprivation).
At the same time, the nature of the speech is by far, the most polarizing speech I have ever given. I think this speech will piss a lot of people off, for any and every number of reasons. I will add insult to injury in that I am more proud of this speech than any I have ever…
Ron Paul Finds the Hero in his own Soul
This is what happens when you combine strength and courage — good and great as James Steele once said to me.
You have the strongest statesman left in the world grasp hold of his own courage with an iron grip and go all in for the presidency that he is destined to win.
Ron has a few months and couple million fiat dollars left of people laughing at him — and then people are going to start viciously attacking him when they see that his GOP nomination is not only a possibility, but imminent.
That’s what people do when they realize they are totally fucked and have no way to stop what Ron has decided express and represent — the hero in man’s soul.
Ron Paul retires from Congress, goes full force for the presidency.
– Anthony Dream Johnson
“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
I often wonder to myself why I continue to live the life that I do. I could probably walk away from it all now, “get a real job”, and make a lot more money than I do blogging and with T21C.
Yet, I continually come to the same conclusion: that life is good, that happiness is possible, that good things and good people do exist — and that all this is worth fighting for.
My happiness, my achievements, my ideals brought into physical reality — my greatest self actualized.
And the people and things that matter — things that are good, right, congruent, and true; people that benefit my own life in the process of living theirs — people that hold reason as their absolute, and truth a their unstoppable hammer for the world.
I see these things in the achievements and creations of others. In books, movies, TV shows, websites, inventions, exercise machines, videos, speeches, music, cars, buildings, guns, contracts — even the fucking computer…
Live free or die.
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