OPTIMIZE with Brian Johnson | More Wisdom in Less Time

In our last little flurry of +1s, we had some fun with Mel Robbins’s 5 Second Rule. Have you tried it out yet? 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… - GO!!! That might be THE most elegantly efficient Tool we’ve discussed to help close the gap between who we’re CAPABLE of being and who we’re ACTUALLY being. (Operationalizing Areté for the win!) 

Continuing our adventure through Mel Robbins’s playfully wise brain and equally fun book The Five Second Rule, here’s another gem. I actually got up and out of bed last night to jot down the title for this +1 so the idea didn’t slip into the ethers never to return. 

In our last couple +1s, we talked about snoozing our snooze buttons and then throwing away our alarm clocks entirely. (Dare to dream, eh? Hah.)

In our last +1, we talked about snoozing your alarm clock’s snooze button so you don’t suffer sleep inertia for the first four hours of your day—effectively destroying your ability to operate at a truly peak performance level.

In our last +1, we talked about our new Optimus launch code: "5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Now what needs to be done?” 

In our last +1 we had fun exploring the origin story of WD-40. As you may recall, our super-lubricant was named after the number of attempts it took for its creator to figure out a viable concoction to prevent corrosion.

A couple +1s ago, we hung out with a world-class Ferrari pit stop crew and took a moment to celebrate all the people in OUR pit stop crews while committing to stepping up our pit crew games for those we’re blessed to serve. Today I want to talk about WD-40.

In our last +1, we talked about Ferrari-Optimizing Pit Stops and celebrated the people in OUR crews while committing to showing up as powerfully as we can for all the people whose crews we're blessed to be in.

In our last +1, we talked about getting more clarity on your destiny while Optimizing your vehicle so you can reach your destination in style. I suggested we consider spending some time in the Optimize Service Center for a little vehicle fine-tuning.

In our last +1, we talked about Joshua Rosenthal’s wisdom that “Health is a vehicle, not a destination.”  Of course, we reflected on the fact that OPTIMIZING is also a vehicle, not a destination.

Way back in the early days of our +1 Optimizing together, we talked about the fact that our limbic systems evolved to deal with a single lion roaring at us at a time. 

Sam Harris is a very smart and very wise man. As you may know, he’s part neuroscientist, part philosopher, part mystic. In his great book Waking Up he makes a very important distinction, I’d like to talk about Today.

In our last +1, we enjoyed some zigs and zags with Ralph Waldo Emerson and talked about the importance of maintaining self-trust in the midst of inevitable setbacks and lack of clarity/confusion.

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that life is rarely never one perfectly beautiful, geometrically progressive staircase to the moon. Today I’d like to shine a brighter light on that reality. Let’s invite Ralph Waldo Emerson to the Optimizing party. 

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the art and science of lining up our dominoes in one neat and shiny staircase to moon-heaven.  It all sounds so nice and easy when it’s mapped out like that, eh? (Hah.) But… Alas, there are a few important asterisks to that little story.