+1: #425 It’s Always Hard

You're listening to the Optymyze with Brian Johnson podcast. Unlock the full Optymyze experience and join over 10,000 premium members at Optimize Me. Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. Emerson is learning how to read, and I'm the lucky guy who gets to teach him. By the way, we're loving a book called teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. It's awesome. So the other day, Emerson wrote his first word, mom. Then he busted out dad. Then he was able to write his name by himself, and I got a little misty typing that I don't hang on to too much stuff. But those first handwritten words are now my most prized possessions. Philosophically, it's amazing to see how something that is super hard, like, for example, Emerson writing an A, suddenly becomes easy. Of course, I might take more than a moment to celebrate the now awesome A and remind Emerson that there was a time when that was really hard. And we often quickly roll through the other things that were hard before they became super easy. And if you were a fly on the wall of the Johnson house, you might hear something like this. Me saying, hey, remember how you used to poop in your pants? We both get a kick out of that one. And now it's super easy to go in the toilet. But there was a time. And remember how you used to suck your thumb and it was super hard to stop, but then you decided to, and bam. Now it's easy. And remember when writing that A was hard, and now look at it. You make it look easy. Wow. Then we like to connect the dots between hard and easy. Me. How'd you get so good at doing that? A Emerson. Practice me. Yep, that's how you get good at anything, huh? Together. Practice, practice, practice me. You can pretty much do anything you want, buddy. With enough practice. Get a little mist in my eyes as I type that and I say the same thing to you and of course, to myself. You can pretty much do anything you want, buddy, with enough practice. Only question is, what do you want? Seriously, what do you really want in your life? And are you ready to pay the price? Here's to pooping in the toilet and remembering that everything is hard before it's easy. Hey, this is Brian with a quick question for you. Do you know what the word optimize literally means? It's from the Latin optimus, which means the best. In our case, we're talking about helping you create the best version of you. So another quick question. What's the best version of you look like? How does that version of you show up in the world? Helping you be that version of yourself all day, every day is what our Optimized membership program is all about. Now, we obviously give away a ton of content for free, and we give our 10,000 plus premium members a ton More members get hundreds of Philosopher's notes, which are 20 minute book summaries that help you apply the best big ideas from the best optimal living books to your life to today. Plus members get dozens of hour long optimal living 101 masterclasses, more wisdom in less time for your busy life on everything from the science of setting and achieving goals, how to optimize your energy via the fundamentals of nutrition, movement, sleep and meditation, and how to be super productive day in and day out. While of course enjoying the whole process. Every facet of your life Optimized equals you at your absolute best.