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The 4 Elements to Becoming a Stronger Person

By Anthony Dream Johnson in The 21 Convention

  • Element 1: Do your own thinking.
  • Element 2: Drop the ambiguity you see in your own life.
  • Element 3: Be willing to “sacrifice” everything, for something that you are convinced has higher value — live congruently.
  • Element 4: Rise to the challenge of massive uncertainty when it comes your way — do not let fear obstruct your actions.

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Addendum: If I were to give this speech again, there are ideas I would change, and more specifically, words. Think of this speech as a picture taken in June of 2010 of my development as a man — not a permanent window into my head as it currently stands.

Rape

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Independent Thinking

As far back as I can remember, I have been at war with the world.

I didn’t always think of it in those terms of course, but never the less — even as far back as four years old – I have vivid memories of standing up to the many, to the bigger, the stronger, the older, the “wiser” — to any individual or group of individuals I believed were acting in the wrong.

The qualities of those who were in the wrong, by my standards — and the quantity of such individuals — was not even a distant thought to me at such times.

All that mattered was my inflexible demand for what was right in those particular situations.

As I age, I feel the need to expand my focus. Those of you who have followed The Dream Lounge and The 21 Convention from their infancy, can attest to this ever broadening expansion of interests.

And now I think I know why. To win my war with the world, by necessity, I have…

Stockholm

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Meeting Cool People, The 21 Convention

7, 829 kilometers from the birth place of The 21 Convention – Orlando Florida – they said it “couldn’t be done”. They said I didn’t have the resources, the will, the support, or the know–how to pull it off – not to mention, the age (21), and experience.

Yet, here I am, writing the cover text for the DVD you now hold – a DVD that contains footage from three full days of film shot at…