OPTIMIZE with Brian Johnson | More Wisdom in Less Time

Irresistible. That’s the perfect word to describe the growing array of addictive technologies that are capturing so much of our attention these days.

Last night Emerson and I were having fun playing The Riddle Game while mommy and Eleanor took a bath together (which might have been the cutest thing ever).

Do you ever drive a little too fast? Me, too. (I mean, not obnoxiously fast like I might have driven on occasion when I still had a head full of hair and before I started paying attention to much in my life but…) … Which is why I started playing a little game I call “The Speed Limit Game.” (Very original name, eh?) Here’s how it goes.

Today’s Day 1 of our Optimize Mastery Series and Coach-Class II certification programs. My heart just skipped a beat as I typed that!! Stepping back for a moment.

In our last couple +1s, we spent some time with Viktor Frankl—reflecting on his wisdom on both true freedom and true success and happiness.

In our last +1, we spent some time with the master of true freedom: Viktor Frankl. He tells us that freedom exists in the gap between STIMULUS and RESPONSE. Specifically: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

In our last +1, we hopped off the bus driven by Vice sponsored by the casino and hopped on the bus driven by Virtue packed with our favorite heroes including Socrates, Epictetus and Hercules himself!

In our last couple +1s, we’ve been hanging out with Socrates and Hercules and Epictetus, and, most importantly, the goddess Areté.

 

She promised us true happiness and the favor of the gods but she told us “I will not delude you with promises of future pleasure; I shall give you a true account of the facts, exactly as the gods have ordained them. Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.”

Ellen Langer is a professor of psychology at Harvard and one of the world's leading experts on the science of wellbeing, and what she refers to as the "psychology of possibility."

In our last +1, we spent some time with John Maxwell and reflected on his wisdom on the pinnacle of leadership influence: Moral Authority.