Brian Johnson explores destiny as fulfilling your potential, drawing on Joseph Campbell. He suggests seizing each moment to close the gap between who you are and who you could be, and shares his daily journaling practice: write the date and "carpe destiny" as a reminder to pursue that potential.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. A couple plus ones ago we hung out with my two favorite Joes, Joseph Campbell and Joe decenna. At the end of that plus one I shared a bunch of wisdom gems from Grandpa Joe, but I actually saved my favorite for last. It was the very first one I saw when I opened our note on a Joseph Campbell Companion. I think it's perfect for us as we wrap up our first 1000 plus ones and get ready for 2020 with this gem in mind. Here it is. I quote so that's what destiny is. Simply the fulfillment of the potentialities of the energies in your own system. Destiny. We actually kicked off this whole Optimize plus one party with one number one on destiny math. So I think it's particularly powerful to revisit this theme at this stage of our journey. Check out the link to that one. We also did our etymological nerd thing on the word destiny as well. The basic idea of the etymology well, destiny and destination share the same root. The basic idea on how to fulfill our destiny. We need to close the gap between who we're capable of being and and who we're actually being right now. Which leads us to the plus one on the idea of carpe punctum and the fact that we can't actually seize the day per se. The closest we can get to is seizing this moment and this one and the one after that. All of which leads us to my journal. These days now, I always start by writing the day and date very originally. Then I write carpe destiny and that's today's plus one. Shall we seize our destinies together?
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