Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

As we’ve discussed countless times, I start my days with at least a minute or three of journaling.    These days it’s a super-quick sketch of our Optimize Virtue Compass then a quick trip through the Big 3 x 2 +1.    So…   The other day I sat down to begin my Deep Work session with the quick sketch of our compass.    And…    You know what I saw right after I wrote down the four cardinal virtues of Wisdom + Self-Mastery + Courage + Love?   A cardinal.    Hah!    I kid you not.   I’m sitting there at my desk in my new outdoor office and glance up from my journaling (right after writing those cardinal virtues!) to see a beautiful red cardinal perch itself on the limb of a tree a couple dozen feet away.   And, I thought to myself: Thank you, Optimizing gods.    Then it became official.    I now have a new favorite bird: The cardinal.   Which, of course, led me to Google.   Google: “Why are cardinals the bird called cardinals?” (Slightly awkward phrasing but it got the job done. Thank you,