Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

The Best of the Worst and Worst of the Best In our last several +1s, we’ve been having fun hanging out with world-class mental toughness and peak performance coach, Brian Cain.   And, trust me.   Any time spent with Cainer is going to be fun.   He is EASILY one of the most inspiring human beings on the planet. You can’t help but feel energized just being in his presence.   So…   Today we’re going to talk about one of the lines in his little fable on The 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery that jumped out at me and tattooed itself on my consciousness.   It’s about being average.   Coach Kenny is the guide in the fable. He’s coaching a burned-out executive.   He tells him: “‘You are like most people,’ Coach Kenny said. ‘And we call that average. Like I have said, I hate the word average. It means you are the best of the worst and the worst of the best. It’s a terrible place to live.’”   Me: Oh, snap!     Average.    It’s the best of the worst. And the worst of the best.   Stuck right