What up everybody, welcome to episode 327 of The Genius Live.

What's crackin' like and everybody, welcome back to another episode of the show.

I'm your host Max Lugovere, a filmmaker, health and science journalist,

and New York Times best-selling author. I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind

our choices, including what we eat and how we live,

affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, our health span, and our risk for disease.

This podcast is all about how to live in that optimal state, which I call living like a genius.

On today's episode of the show, I'm super excited to welcome Dr. Benjamin Hardy.

Dr. Hardy is an organizational psychologist, and he's the best-selling author of Will Power Doesn't Work,

and personality isn't permanent. His blogs have been read by over 100 million people,

and featured in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, on CNBC, among many others.

His latest book is called 10X is Easier than 2X,

how world-class entrepreneurs achieve more by doing less.

And it's a book that he co-wrote with Dan Sullivan, who's one of the world's foremost experts on

entrepreneurship. Dr. Hardy is essentially a mind-set and manifestation expert.

And in this conversation, we are going to talk about the addiction that so many of us seem to

experience to overstimulation, whether to alcohol, porn, social media, sugar, hyper-palatable,

ultra-processed foods. You name it. And Dr. Hardy is going to provide practical ways to regain

control over your life. He's going to share how you can make better decisions day-to-day by connecting

with your future self, and using that vision as a form of filter for your actions and behaviors.

Super cool stuff. Later in the episode, we're also going to talk about how you can 10X your

success in pretty much any area of life by focusing on the few things that truly matter and letting go

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