+1: #475 Want Recognition?

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. Continuing our good times with Confucius, here's one of the gems from his Analects that has tattooed itself on my brain since I read it a decade ago. The Master said, I am quoting, he does not mind not being in office. All he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition. He is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition. How great is that? Would you like a little more recognition than you're currently getting? All right, that's fine. I'll take a deep breath and get back to work doing whatever it is you think will earn you that recognition and repeat that process whenever the desire for more recognition arises. That's today's plus one. Well, that and this passage from James Allen's As a Man Thinketh, which is also tattooed in my brain along with big chunks of that entire essay. If you haven't read it, check it out. So imagine working tirelessly and then one day things just shift. Here's how Alan poetically puts it. He says, and this is a long passage I quote, and you too, youthful reader, will realize the vision, not the idle wish of your heart, be it base or beautiful or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate toward that which you secretly most love. Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts. You will receive that which you earn, no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. And he says, you will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration. In the beautiful words of Stanton Kirkham Davis, you may be keeping accounts, and presently you shall walk out of the door that for so long has seemed to you the barrier of your ideals, and shall find yourself before an audience. The pen is still behind your ear, the ink stains on your fingers, and then and there shall pour out the torrent of your inspiration. You may be driving sheep and you shall wander to the city, bucolic and open mouthed, shall wander under the intrepid guidance of the spirit, into the studio of the master. And after a time he shall say, I have nothing more to teach you. And now you have become the master who did so recently. Dream of great things while driving sheep. You shall lay down the saw and the plane to take upon yourself the regeneration of the world. Here's to the ink stains on your fingers when the curtains rise and the world applauds and you say, did I win? 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 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 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.