Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

From Doing the Right Thing for the Win!   In our last few +1s, we’ve been talking about The Law of Cause and Effect.   We started with Michael Singer’s wisdom. Then we went old school with Jesus and Epictetus.    I promised we’d talk about what modern SCIENCE has to say about applying the basic ideas of The Law of Cause and Effect to the process of optimizing our lives.   That’s what we’ll do Today.   But…   First…   As we journey back from 2,000 years ago to today, let’s pause briefly and see what another one of my favorite teachers had to say about the subject.   In 1841, the great American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay called “Compensation” in which he did his thing by integrating wisdom from the East with our Western perspective.   He tells us: “Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”   Yep.    There you go.   The Law of Cause and Effec