Brian JohnsonChairman & Philosopher in Residence at Heroic

+1 #1111: Crossing Bright Lines

22 Apr 2020 · 3 min

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Brian Johnson broke his morning routine by checking Dropbox for 8 minutes and 48 seconds, then caught himself. He calls these clear behavioral boundaries "bright lines" and says noticing small lapses fast keeps you from sliding further into reactive mode.

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8 minutes and 48 seconds.

Number 111 for 2020.

Friday, September 6, 2047.

73.

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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome Back to another optimize +1 this morning I did my normal thing starting last night with shutdown complete etc. You know the drill. My number 1am 1 deport goodness was clear. Create plus ones. Note that's supposed to be pre inputs only. That's not what I did. Rather than get to work on the Plus 1s, I found myself quickly checking in on the status of little Dropbox Paper chat regarding a project we're working on and gah. I was laughing as I typed this. Hate it when I expose my brain to inputs before doing what I a say I'm going to do and B know is most important while c my brain is primed and ready to crush it. 8 minutes and 48 seconds elapsed in this reactive before creative mode. Before I yanked myself out of it and got back to what I said was most important. I was literally nearly sweating. Dude, what are you doing? It was fantastic and it made me think of a few things. First, let's remember that we have bright lines. Not so that we'll never cross them per se, but so that we know when we do cross them, we know we did and we can get back on track. Snappy fast. Second, it made me think about how much time I used to waste falling into the trap of it'll only take a minute. And then hours or days flew by. And that's today's plus one. What's your AM protocol? You got one. You working it? Here's to having fun creating and using bright lines to keep us on track as we give the world all we've got today. Little PS Here. The best part about this plus one. I had no idea when I began today's deep work that I'd be creating one number one 1111. How perfect is that that I hiccuped on that one. And by some nice twist of fate, this is plus one number 111 for 2020 plus one plus one plus one plus one plus 1 plus one plus one. Looking forward to number 11,111. 111111. I think that was five ones. Enter quick calculations. If all goes as planned over the next 37 years, I laughed with the stoic optimizing gods as I typed that we'll have fun with plus one number 11,111 on Friday, September 6, 2047. God willing, I'll be 73. How about you? Plus one plus one plus one plus one plus one.