+1: #640 Campfires and Chairs

You're listening to Brain Health 101, an optimal living interview with David Perlmutter and Brian Johnson. Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. Continuing and concluding our trip through Steve Chandler's wise brain and great book, Reinventing Yourself, let's talk about campfires. Campfires. Yeah, campfires. So you're out camping. It's nighttime. You light a fire, it keeps you warm. You wake up the next morning, the fire is out. You'll need to light another fire tonight to get warm again. Now, do you complain about the fact that you need to create another fire, or do you just accept that that's how it is and you light another fire? Unless you pretty much exclusively speak victame, you accept that reality and simply make that additional fire, right? Well, Steve tells us that the human spirit is just like that campfire. You need to relight it every single day. Most people don't like that fact. They want their fire to burn all day, every day, from the moment they wake up until the moment they fall asleep, with pleasant dreams included, as well, with as little effort as possible. That's called entitlement. You can also call it wanting to be exonerated from all future effort. And as it turns out, Phil Stutts says almost exactly the same thing. Only the metaphor he uses in our chats is that of a chair. He says that when you build a chair on the physical we or material plane of life, it's there the next day. But, and this is another big but on the spiritual plane, that chair you built today won't be there tomorrow. You need to get back to work rebuilding it every day, whether you like it or not. Kind of like the campfire of the human spirit. Today's +1. At the end of the day to day, you use the wood from the chair you built to fuel the campfire. You need to build every night, knowing that you'll need to build both again tomorrow morning and know that when we really get this, we're nearly invincible. Why? Well, we stop complaining when we inevitably feel a little off and simply get to work doing the things we know will help us feel great. That is the source of ultimate confidence, and it's ours. So here's to your comfy chairs that act as kindling for your warm fires. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Optymyze with Bryan Johnson. To find out more, go to Optimize Me.