Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

Continuing our good times with Confucius, here’s one of the gems from his Analects that has tattooed itself on my brain since I read it a decade ago.   “The Master said, He does not mind not being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.”   How great is THAT?   Would you like a little more recognition than you’re getting?   OK. That’s fine.   Now take a deep breath and get back to work doing whatever it is you think will EARN you that recognition.   Repeat that process whenever the desire for (more) recognition arises.    That’s Today’s +1.   Well, that and this passage from James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh—which is also tattooed to my brain along with big chunks of that entire essay.   Imagine working tirelessly and then, one day, things just shift.   Here’s how Allen poetically puts it: “And you, too, youthful reader, will realize the Vis