Brian Johnson turns highway driving into a calm practice by setting cruise control to the speed limit, taking a long exhale, and smiling. He calls it reclaiming lost hours by turning the mundane into mastery, drawing on George Leonard's idea of integrating ordinary moments into practice.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. Do you ever drive a little too fast? Me too. I mean, not obnoxiously fast. Like I might have driven on occasion when I still had a head full of hair and before I started paying attention to much in my life. But yeah, which is why I started playing a little game I call the Speed Limit Game. Very original title, huh? Here's how it goes. If I'm in the car and driving, then I set the cruise control, speed thingy to the speed limit. Driving to the trail in the morning. Speed limit is 25. That's how fast I go on the freeway. Speed limit is 65. This one needs work, so I can say that's how fast I go. But each time I set the speed control, I take a nice deep breath down into the belly, exhale slightly longer and smile, knowing I just used another mundane moment to slow down, connect to my inner daimon, and practice cultivating calm confidence and energized tranquility. And that's today's plus one. If you feel so inspired, let's play the Speed Limit game and make George Leonard proud as we embrace and practice his mastery wisdom. I quote, could all of us reclaim lost hours of our lives by making everything the commonplace along with the extraordinary a part of our practice? Yes. Minus 1. Minus 1. Minus one equals zero over the speed limit for the plus one plus one plus one. Calm confidence, energized tranquility. Win.
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