#📓 #🎥 #🟡 # How to play the equanimity game ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Mar 06, 2022</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[Personal Development]] **Author:** [[Brian Johnson]] **Citation:** Johnson, B. (November 12, 2012). *How to play the equanimity game* [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE-gv3uawZA&ab_channel=OPTIMIZEwithBrianJohnson --- # Abstract ~ 3 Sentence Summary Equanimity is having a balanced mind. Johnson shares a quote from [[Marcus Aurelius]] about recovering equanimity when it's been disturbed. Then he discusses how to reset and get back to a balanced state when something upsets you. ## Author's Purpose To instruct people how to recover from an upsetting situation and regain a sense of mental balance. # Notes & Important Ideas - Defines [[equanimity]] > When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose not time recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. > - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Make getting back to equanimity a game 1. Notice when you're off 2. See how fast you can get back on track with your highest goal 1. Smile and take a deep breath - *I read or heard somewhere that it takes 9 deep breaths to reset your nervous system.* 2. Ask yourself questions: - What would the highest version of myself do right now? - If I knew what it was, what would my optimal response be? 3. Do that! # Personal Revelations *I am not always good at recognizing when I am out of balance, and even when I have noticed I tend to spend too much time there. It would be good for me to create a menu of techniques for recovering equanimity. And I should make a practice of evaluating my mental state and recovering equanimity as quickly as possible.* --- # Other References TBR:: 🔖 Meditation by Marcus Aurelius (GR)