Live your Genius: Finding Direction in a Distracted Time
You have a genius.
I’ve yet to meet a man who doesn't (some call this your purpose, your gift, or your innate nature). It doesn’t mean you’re meant to be John Lennon, Michelangelo, or Ross Gay (although this may actually be your genius). It does mean you have something quite distinct and potent to offer this world.
The greatest influence on our sense of fulfillment of men is the living and giving of our genius. Hands down.
Cultivating this genius inherently means meeting resistance. Precision doesn’t come without friction. Craft doesn’t come without failure.
This gets complicated with the proliferation of technology. Yes, we’ve always been able to distract. But not at this scale and with the skill of companies whose explicit mission is to capture our attention.
Most of us meet the resistance that leads to the cultivation of our genius, and for quite sensible reasons from a brain science perspective, we choose the back alley of dopamine through instant gratification.
If we have some training—the training I’m giving you in this very class—we can be ninjas in using the distraction to take us deeper into the purposeful living of our genius.
Without it, we’re grocery bags at deep sea. The team of behavioral psychologists, data scientists, and product designers at Meta is a lot stronger than your willpower at 4:04pm on a Monday. Unless…you train.
I am going to tell you all a captivating story to start our time together. I am going to lead you through some deep personal reflection. And then I am going to weave it together with the inspiration + tools for you to leave feeling like Lebron in the gym heading into his 24th season.
This is from a brother from our last masterclass:
I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for your workshop. I wasn’t able to attend but watched on YouTube and was able to get in some dharma sprints today and already just feeling so much more prepared to lean into my resistance. Your words, insight, presence and work have inspired me deeply and I am truly grateful.
Your world needs your genius. Your partner, kids, coworkers, best friends. Let's bring it forth, together.
Recording will be made available to all those who RSVP—whether you can attend live or not. Time-permitting, we’ll have space for Q&A at the end.
This masterclass is part of the build-up for our 8-month journey, Living Leadership.
Living Leadership is for the men who are bridging worlds most people keep separate. Living Leadership is for the men who know they have to find, live, and lead from a deeper purpose. Living Leadership is for the men who are ready to know and give their genius, on behalf of what matters most in their worlds.
Once a year, Heart of Men curates a group of 16 brothers from all walks of life who are ready to cross the threshold from “maybe one day” to “the time has to be now.”
Teachers, therapists, highly-successful-entrepreneurs, blue-collar business owners, men just out of prison, and artists come together as an all-star team that you wouldn’t find anywhere else in the world.
In this robust gathering of unique men with a shared mission, the clarity, necessity, and possibility of our genius blossoms in a way we wouldn’t know otherwise.
When these 16 men walk through the final threshold of the journey after eight months, each of their lives will have an unmistakable quality of precision, purpose, and presence.
Four spots remain. Will you take your seat as one of the men leading us into a future that’s actually worthy of the glimmer in the eyes of our children?