December 13, 2006 @ 5:58 pm
How to Become a Rock
Dwayne Johnson was arrested nine times by the time he was seventeen. But he changed. He reinvented himself and created a wildly successful man; The Rock. Learn his five rules for reinvention and his secret superfood.
#1: Build on your strengths
Know your strengths and make them better in small increments.
Suddenly I’m getting ready to host Saturday Night Live. Then The Scorpion King to The Rundown to Walking Tall to Be Cool, playing a gay, country-music-singing cowboy. Increments, you see?
#2: Find the right mentor
A good mentor knows how to lead you in the right direction
I should have been in prison. But a guy, my childhood football coach, cared about me enough to say, “Hey, I want you to come out for the football team.”
#3: Tell brutal truths
Be very clear with everyone and anyone what your intentions and goals are.
A lot of times the truth can hurt, the truth sucks, it can crush your ego. But it’s freeing just to know it. Make sure that everyone is very, very clear on things.
#4: Savor your failures
You can’t be successful every time. Learn from your mistakes and improve.
The pace of life is fast — we’re on this treadmill that rolls every day, 24 hours a day, nonstop. And I don’t get a chance to think about things until I fail, and I have to figure out what happened.
#5: Know when to say no
Choose your own tasks and set your own pace to perform better.
A lot of times you have to dial it down a bit. Going without sleep is counterproductive. At some point, you just have to get off that treadmill.
Bonus: How The Rock stays fit
Swiss-ball pike pushups
You can do so many variations. Lift one leg, come down slow, isometrically hold the pushup, with your face 6 inches off the ground. It works your core, shoulders, triceps, chest, balance, everything.
Large cheese pizza
When you eat clean for a long period of time, you need to break that up. For me, that’s a large plain cheese pizza every 2 weeks or so. Eat well, but have a pizza, a cheeseburger, or a shot of whiskey and a six-pack once in a while — you’re gonna be great.
Read the full story The Rock’s Rules for Reinvention in Men’s Health.
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Posted by Manly Wisdom From an Aging Rockstar at Brakar.com
March 31, 2007 @ 7:01 am
[...] A Rockstar that survived fame, drugs and groupies, and still rocks, is worth listening to. Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is one of them. In this interview with Men’s Health he shares some of his wisdom as a man, father and rockstar. I like this one: “Don’t be afraid to be loud. Loud is good.” When Stephen Perrine of Men’s Health asked Perry about being faithful to one woman, Perry surprised me with his answer. I really never expected an energetic rockstar to be turned off by groupies. I’m turned off by the groupie thing. I’m a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works. There’s a drug called naloxone they give to opium addicts. It fits into certain receptors [in the brain] so the opium can’t get in. I believe that when you’re in love, it works the same way. I mean, I appreciate a beautiful woman. But I’m satisfied. There’s no room for anybody else to get in. [...]
Posted by Modern Man
April 11, 2007 @ 4:18 am
Now THAT’S an awesome article. Thanks! :)
Posted by Thomas Brakar
April 13, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
You’re welcome, Modern Man. :) Glad you liked it.