Part 7: “In Search Of Heroes Book 2 ” How do people become heroes? by Ralph Zuranski
Mike Filsaime: People become heroes by just living a good life. People look up to you when you do things right. That’s a simple answer for a complicated question. How to become a hero is simply just living the life that you know is right. Then people will look up to you.
Paulie Sabol: The first answer is a day at a time. You become a hero one day at a time. This is the other part of it. Do you know how you become a villain? One day at a time. You become a hero or a villain one day at a time.
So let me tell you what the difference is. If the path is the same, what’s the difference? For your case, we will brand the hero’s edge. The hero’s edge works this way.
Today there will be a challenge. You will respond to that challenge with the simple discipline of heroism or you will respond to it with the simple neglect of villainy.
I may have said this once before, but I want to be clear. When I am making this hard juxtaposition, of course there are shades of gray, but for the purpose of this, let’s just say the only thing that it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
Our only choices are heroism or villainy. So today when that challenge comes, we are either going to respond as a hero, with heroism, or we are going to respond with neglect which is villainy. In doing that today, we won’t notice a big difference. It is sort of like if you had the choice today to read a book on a subject area that you’d like increase your strength in.
If you read it today, a chapter, you may not know a whole lot more, right? You may not notice the difference, but what happens if you read a chapter a day, a year from now? Now you’ve read maybe ten different 36 chapter books. That’s a huge amount of information. That’s going to make a huge difference.
What if you do that for the entirety of your junior high years? You do that for three years. You’ve now read 30 books. In many cases, that is as many authoritative books as there are on a subject. You are really an expert at that moment. It is the same way with heroism.
The act of making the decision to act like a hero right now – in the action of doing so will seem to make no difference at all, but the compound effect of making the simple decision of discipline to act like a hero rather than the simple act of neglect, villainy, over time will make all the difference in the world.
That is why the ability to move into your destiny as a hero is assured. That is why you can trust the truth. That is why it must happen. All it takes is the little act of discipline. It is not hard to do. Is it hard to read a chapter today? Is that extraneous and take hours and hours of time to read a chapter?
No, just a little bit of time. But the compound effect over time assures greatness. That is how you become a hero today.
Tom Beal: By choice…choosing to build a foundation of ethics, honesty, belief and faith. There’s a quote and let me see if I can get this right, “I’m going to improve myself for you. I love you so much I’m going to improve myself. To choose the best you that you can be is all it takes to be a hero.