Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

Horticultural vs. Clock Time Revisited   In our last +1, we continued our conversation about The Law of Cause and Effect by inviting Jesus to the party to share his thoughts.   As you may recall, he told us that we can’t expect to grow grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles.   In other words: If we want a noble, virtuous life, we must do noble, virtuous things.   Now…   It’s not possible for me to think about figs without thinking about another ancient wise man who happens to be my all-time favorite teacher, the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus.    Epictetus was born (into slavery!) in what is now Turkey in the year 50 AD—not too long after or far away from where Jesus taught.   Epictetus reminds us that, even if we’re doing it right and growing figs on a fig tree, we’ve gotta know that IT TAKES TIME for those trees to bear fruit.   As we discussed in an old-school +1 on Horticultural Time vs. Clock Time: When you want to grow something and you plant a seed, do you start your stopwa