Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

Gratitude.   Yes, we’ve been chatting about it quite a bit recently.    That’s deliberate.   You know how we recently established the (scientifically-validated) Top 2 virtues as Zest + Hope?   Well…    Positive psychologists arm wrestle a bit about those top two virtues.    While Ryan Niemiec (via The Power of Character Strengths) tells us that Zest + Hope are our Top 2, Robert Emmons tells us that Gratitude is even more predictive of well-being than Hope.    We’ll leave the arm-wrestling debate on the precise order of those Top 2 to our academic friends but let’s shine a BRIGHT LIGHT on the Big 3 Virtues: Zest + Hope + Gratitude.   As I’ve been thinking about it, I actually like the order: Zest + Gratitude + Hope.   We’re Optimizing our Energy-Zest so we can give our best to our Work + Love. (Zest is still the undisputed #1 Virtue—although I’d say it’s technically achieved as a by-product of Wisdom + Self-Mastery/Discipline on the the fundamentals.)   Then… We practice Gratitude for t