Today's the Day To Create Emotional Stamina via Masterpiece Days (10 Big Ideas from Mastery Series Module IV: Carpe Diem - Part 1: The Big Picture) (Preview)

You're listening to Optimize with Bryan Johnson. More wisdom in less time. Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to the Optimize Mastery series. Today we've got module six on the fundamentals. We are officially in the home stretch and I know you've been working hard. Module 1, Eudaimonology 2, Hero Ology 3, the Big 3 times 2. 4, Carpe Diem, of course. And then our last module on algorithms one through five. Now we're ready for module six, the fundamentals. This, as you probably know by this point, is where we're going to spend the most time. We're going to spend eight sessions together, starting with today, the big picture. Then we're going to look at each of our seven core fundamentals and why we're going to do that. Well, each of our modules has a theme. The theme, as I write in the upper right hand corner of my notes as I prepare for these sessions, is I'm going to sell you, I'm going to try to sell you anyway on the fact that if you want to truly fundamentally and permanently change your life, you need to go to the fundamentals. It is all about the fundamentals. If we want to optimize and actualize virtue wise, peak performance wise and spirituality wise, then we need to energize. And you do that by paying attention to eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, being present or focusing, being grateful or celebrating and prospering, which literally means to move forward with hope, which we're going to talk about in energetically. We're going to talk about consciousness wise and financially as well. So there you go, Module six, the fundamentals. We're going to have some fun. As always. We've got 10 ideas today. Let's take a quick look and then we will jump in. The first idea is you as a radiantly energized exemplar. Again, this is the core theme of all of our work together and why we spend so much time in our coach program focusing on you as client number zero. I want you to walk into a room and have people feel your energetic presence. I want them to see you go from where you started to where you are now and say, what are you doing? Knowing that who we are, what we do, speaks more loudly than anything we can possibly say. And again, we need to know that if we want to be radiantly energized exemplars, optimizing, actualizing, virtue wise, peak performance wise and spirituality wise, we need to energize. I'm going to sell you on that. Then we're going to spend three different ideas on each of those core ideas. So virtue wise, we're going to look at eudaimonology and psychology. Again, if you have virtue issues or psychology issues, look at your underlying physiology, your energy. Then we're going to look at peak performance in our third big idea. Greatness is all about consistency on the fundamentals. We're going to talk about that in John Wooden's socks again. Then we're going to look at spirituality. You want to optimize and actualize spirituality wise. Well, guess what, this all starts with fundamentals as well. We're going to talk about light bulbs in temples. We're going to talk about that golden Buddha one more time in Niagara Falls. Did Jesus say, the meek shall inherit the earth? That's one translation. Another translation is the disciplined or the tamed. The disciplined shall inherit the earth. We're gonna talk about what it means to truly be spiritual by honoring our fundamentals. Then we're gonna have a few different metaphors we'll look at. Starting with the fifth big idea. Tall buildings have deep foundations and they have flexible structures. Then we're gonna move from there to one of my favorite ideas, states and traits. It's easy to get shot out of a cannon, to feel the inspiration of walking on fire after a weekend workshop or levitating off of your meditation cushion after a long retreat, or being an enlightened pretzel after a yoga retreat. Those are all nice states. But we need to avoid going, oh yeah, awesome, back down to where we were before. And the only way to do that is to build scaffolding and to build the underlying structures. How do you do that? Again, the fundamentals. The seventh idea. We will return to the you. We're going to talk about it in the context of our fundamentals. The patron letter of heroes, right, that you. We're going to talk about universal, unique and ultimate fundamentals. Right? We all share universal fundies. We have unique expressions of those. And then the ultimate fundamental is actually the number one thing you could be doing right now to improve your life. Which leads us to the eighth idea, the number ones times three. So one of the most powerful things we can do when we're wobbly or we just want to go to the next level is ask ourselves, how is my number one self care habit? That's the number one number one. And then how can I do what can I do? What one positive thing can I do that would most benefit my life? And what's the one thing I need to get rid of that Would most benefit my life. Number ones times three. Then our ninth idea is blissipline. We talked about hedonic eudaimonia. Well, Michael Beckwith has another word for it. Blissipline. Your discipline becomes bliss. Right? You're doing it because you know that this is how you're going to win the ultimate game. Our highs are going to be higher, and our lows are going to be higher. That is exciting. Working our fundamentals, working our protocol is not a chore. It's a gift we give ourselves. We want to do it with joy. Making the connection. We'll also talk about the fact that great optimizers know they're going to make bad shots and they play poorly. Well, fundamental idea. Then the 10th idea. We'll go through our optimized fundies. Eating, moving, sleeping, breathing, focusing, being grateful and celebrating and prospering. And then, coaches, we'll wrap it up with a call to action. One more time. That's the overview. Let's jump in. All right, our first big idea. You are a radiantly energized exemplar. Whenever I journal how I kind of approach my work, I write down the plus ones, PNS, the 101s, which are all funneled into this mastery series, and then it comes out into our coach program. This is the big lever that I'm choosing and we're choosing to pull to really change the world. And when I represent the coaches, the way that I do it is I draw a dot, and then I have arrows going out. And each of those arrows, for me, represents the ripples that you can create in your life. How most powerfully will always be you being the change that you want to see, being a radiant demonstration of your philosophy. However you adapt our philosophy, you expressing that most powerfully. So again, we want you to be a radiantly energized exemplar, practicing your philosophy, being that change. And one more time, the way we do that is to focus on our foundation, to focus on the fundamentals. When we draw Maslow's hierarchy. When I draw it anyway, there's that triangle, right? We've got the optimus U radiating from the top. And at the base of that triangle, I always draw a circle around it, thinking about the foundation. If you want to go high, then you must go deeply. What one can be, one must be. And if one wants to be that best version of oneself in service to the world, then we'd be wise to focus on those tiny little fundamentals that aren't so tiny. So one more time, you want to change your life fundamentally and permanently. Focus on the fundies and if you want to optimize and actualize virtue wise, peak performance wise and spirituality wise, then you need to energize. Number one virtue. Science says to help us express the best version of ourselves. Live with that eudaimonia. Therefore, we're going to spend the bulk of our attention going deep here. Again, think of your soul force and how you're plugging into something bigger than yourself as you rock. You're eating, you're moving, you're sleeping, you're breathing, you're focusing, you're celebrating and you're prospering. That's our first idea. You are our radiant exemplar client number zero. Get to work. Foreign. Hey, this is Brian again. I hope you enjoyed that overview of a Mastery Series session and got some wisdom out of it. You can apply to your life today. What was it again? You can learn more about our Optimize Coach program at Optimize Me Coach. And here's a fun little video we put together featuring some of our optimized Coach graduates describing what they got out of our program and why they loved it so much. You can also check out hundreds of other testimonials at Optimize Me Coach. Have an awesome day and let's do this.