1255: [Part 2] How to Increase the Volume of Your Brain and Make Optimal Decisions by Benjamin Hardy on Mind Training

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🗓️ 19 May 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Benjamin Hardy shares how to increase the volume of your brain and make optimal decisions. This is part 2 of 2. Episode 1255: [Part 2] How to Increase the Volume of Your Brain and Make Optimal Decisions by Benjamin Hardy on Mind Training Benjamin Hardy has been the top writer on Medium.com since late 2015. He focuses on self-improvement, motivation, and entrepreneurship. His writing is fueled by his personal experiences, self-directed education, and formal education. His research focuses on the psychological differences of "wantrepreneurs" and actual entrepreneurs. He lives in Clemson, South Carolina with his wife and they are the foster parents of 3 children. The original post is located here: https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy/how-to-take-ownership-and-change-your-brain-identity-and-future-252ffab07523 Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1255. How to increase the volume of your brain
0:05.2	and make optimal decisions. Part 2 by Benjamin Hardy of Benjamin Hardy.com
0:10.2	and I'm Justin Mollick. Happy Sunday. Welcome to the old podcast. That's the OLD podcast Optimal
0:15.9	Living Daily where I read to you like a big ongoing audiobook from many different authors.
0:21.1	But today being a continuation from yesterday so I'd recommend listening to yesterday's episode first.
0:26.3	I did a book graph on Instagram a few weeks ago. Another one is coming soon. If you're not
0:30.4	following us there now is a good time. You can find us at OLD podcast. But for now let's get
0:35.6	ready to part 2 and start optimizing your life. How to increase the volume of your brain and make
0:45.7	optimal decisions. Part 2 by Benjamin Hardy of Benjamin Hardy.com. Extreme pain or extreme curiosity.
0:56.0	What leads most people to change? Usually it's either extreme pain or extreme curiosity.
1:02.0	Both is best. The problem for most people is that their life isn't so bad that it forces them to
1:06.7	face some hard truths. As the world becomes increasingly industrialized, life becomes pretty
1:11.9	comfortable for most people. People aren't necessarily happy but they're getting plenty of
1:16.8	dopamine through their addictions to technology, processed foods, and other self feeding behaviors.
1:22.8	Moreover, very few people are extremely curious. The type of curiosity that compels you to continually
1:28.6	ask the hard questions to question the common assumptions to get to the heart of the matter,
1:34.2	to figure out how everything is connected, to see how far the rabbit hole goes.
1:39.5	Most people don't want to face the hard truths. They prefer the comfort of what's cultural.
1:44.0	They don't want to deal with the implications of a higher or different plane of understanding.
1:48.5	The pursuit of excellence requires an intimate relationship with both pain and curiosity.
1:54.6	Gross can't happen without pain, nor can it happen without the insatiable desire to see how far
1:59.6	it can go. The amount of time spent on an activity doesn't matter. Some people spend 10,000 hours
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