How To Train Your Willpower (Part 2) with Dave Asprey

Here are the action steps you can take to train your willpower

 

Is it possible to train willpower? The answer is yes if you know the core issues waning your willpower. And that’s what Dave Asprey breaks down for you in this episode. You’ll be learning the bulletproof way of training your willpower based on the “Fs” of Fear, Food, F**k, and additionally Fat, Feel and Figure.

 

We highly recommend you listen to the previous episode, "Dave Asprey on hacking the 3 “F” words of willpower (Part 1)” so you don’t miss out on the additional information he’s shared there. 

 

"The most powerful thing might not be learning how to turn off the fear but learning how to feel when you go into it.” — Dave Asprey

 

Highlights from the episode:

The effects of the fight or flight mode and what you can do about it

Recognizing the different rhythms between a fear-based heartbeat versus a calm heartbeat

How to incorporate Heart Rate Variability Training into your everyday life

Dave shares a breathing exercise to help you move from sympathetic to a parasympathetic nervous system

The tools Dave uses to turn the dial down on fear (links in resources below)

An exercise Dave does with his kids before they sleep to help them train their resilience towards wins and failures

What happens when you don’t get enough sleep and what to do about it for your body

How neurofeedback training can help you to turn off the mental chatter that feeds your fears

The 3 letter “F” word that helps Dave to maintain a stable delivery of energy to his head

The active changes in your body when you stop eating food which causes inflammation and cravings

How Dave experimented with the Taoist equation to immortality by basing it on Napoleon Hill’s book, "Think and Grow Rich."

 

People mentioned in the episode:

Emily (Fletcher)

HeartMath Institute

40 Years of Zen

Vishen Lakhiani

Dr. Mark Hyman

Harvey Kellogg

Napoleon Hill

 

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Heart Rate Variability training

Heart-opening Buddhist meditation

Burning Man

Bulletproof Stress Detective

Inner Balance Trainer by the HeartMath Institute

Hypnotherapy

Neuro-feedback training

Eat Fat, Get Thin by Dr. Mark Hyman

The Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey

Bulletproof Coffee

Bulletproof Intermittent Fasting

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Orgasm vs. Performance by Dave Asprey in the Quantified Self Conference

 

We’d recommend you listen to Dave’s previous episode:

Dave Asprey on hacking the 3 “F” words of willpower (Part 1)

 

For more materials, we’d recommend the following articles:

The Surprising Thing I Learned From Studying My Brain With Meditation Technology For 7 Days

4 Ways To Turn Sleep Into Your Superpower

Vishen Lakhiani On How To Be Unf*ckwithable

 

Here’s a powerful quote by Dave for you to leave with,

"It’s not important that you look a certain way, it’s important that you feel a certain way."

— Dave Asprey

 

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