Optimize With Brian Johnson | More Wisdom In Less Time

Emerson is learning how to read and I’m the lucky guy who gets to teach him.   The other day Emerson wrote his first word: “mom.” Then he busted out “dad.” Then he was able to write his name by himself. (I get a little misty just typing that.)   I don’t hang on to 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. If you were a fly on the wall of the Johnson house you might here something like this:   “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!”   “And, remember how you used to suck