The Athletic Hero: Transcendence, Freedom, & Flourishing - Volume 1: Emergence
Use history's power to aim at your highest potential
Be the hero in a world of victims
Give back your participation trophies and step into the world of athletic legends
Sport Historian Dr. Goldstein reveals history's secrets to provide powerful lessons you can use to better your life and community
This isn't your the typical boring academic book
You know the kind where even the author falls asleep after ten pages
Dr. Goldstein's writing is easy to read, entertaining, and actionable
Why bother writing it?
There's a general weakness in our culture today
Weak thinkers, weak bodies, and weak souls
Weakening traditions, weakening communities, and weakening societies
It's apparent in the cheapening of sport, the obesity epidemic, and the destruction of Western history and tradition
The ideas in this book are the powerful tonic needed to turn weakness into strength
Inspired by thinkers like Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and curious questioners like Joe Rogan, Dr. Goldstein spent years exploring the meaning of the athlete in Western history
Did you know that the athlete is actually a mythological idea that aims individuals towards their best selves through uniting body, mind, and spirit?
The Athletic-Hero ideal provides a model for individuals on how to live their best possible life
But it's not just individuals that flourish when they adopt Athletic-Heroism
Dr. Goldstein discovered a connection between Athletic-Heroism and the societal advancement of liberty and individual human flourishing
What's in it for me?
If you need inspiration to start moving your body with purpose
If you have a curious mind that doesn't accept being told how to think
If you want to find a deeper meaning in your love of exercise
This book has the answers for you
It points you to a life devoted to physical excellence
It gives you powerful knowledge to defend the individual, athletics, and the West
It aims you toward a meaningful life rooted in ancient wisdom
In Volume 1: Emergence you’ll learn
Why athletics matter for individual development
About the first civilizations who participated in athletic-type behavior
The origins and practices of the Ancient Olympic Festival
The mythological roots of athletics in Greek Culture
How athletics represented a Greek cultural, military, and aesthetic renaissance
Why Herakles (Hercules) is the archetype of the Athletic-Hero
How famous ancient Greek athletes lived out the Athletic-Hero ideal
How the idea of the Athletic-Hero created ancient Greece's greatest poetry
Why even Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all celebrated athletics and the athlete
The links between athletic celebration, individual flourishing, and the advancement of liberty