Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

In Permanent Ink Somewhere I’ll Never Miss It     Today I want to chat about how I spent last Father’s Day with the kids.   Hint: We went to Blindside Tattoo in Austin, Texas to add some Heroic targets to my forearm in permanent ink.     Before we go there…   As you may recall, in our last +1, we talked about Admiral McRaven’s Hero Code and the virtue of perseverance.   He told us about the fact that it was PERSEVERANCE that helped many of our favorite Heroes weather the inevitable storms of their Heroic quests en route to the summit of fulfilling their Missions.   I think this is so good that it’s worth repeating: “George Washington was defeated on the battlefield more times than he won. Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections before he won the presidency. Thomas Edison failed ten thousand times before inventing the lightbulb. Henry Ford had two failed companies before he found success. J. K. Rowling was destitute before she got the first Harry Potter book published, and Oprah Winfrey had an extre