Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

Continuing (and concluding) our trip through Steve Chandler’s wise brain (and great book, Reinventing Yourself), let’s talk about campfires.   Campfires? Yep. Campfires.    So… You’re out camping. It’s night time. You light a fire. It keeps you warm. You wake up the next morning. The fire is out. You’ll need to light another fire tonight to get warm again.   Now, do you complain about the fact that you need to create another fire? Or, do you just accept that that’s how it is?   Unless you pretty much exclusively speak Victimese, you accept that reality and simply make another fire, right?   Well… Steve tells us that the “human spirit” is JUST like that campfire. You need to re-light it EVERY SINGLE DAY.   Most people don’t like that fact. They want their fire to burn all day every day from the moment they wake up until the moment they fall asleep (with pleasant dreams included as well)—with as little effort as possible.   That’s called entitlement. You can also call it wanting to be exone