What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Rich Devini. He's a retired Navy Seal commander and an author.

The Navy Seals are one of the most hardened military groups in the world.

During 13 tours and over a decade of service, Rich researched and tested his favorite ways to improve and enhance the mental and physical performance of himself and his unit.

So today, I expect to learn how to immediately move your system from a sympathetic to a parasympathetic state. Why optimal performance is preferable to peak performance, why understanding the relationship between skills and attributes is crucial, how to cope with fear and much more.

It's pretty interesting to get someone like Rich who obviously has that time that he's spent in the field testing these strategies on the ground.

But now he's also working out of Andrew Huberman's lab, he's doing studies and research to really try and dig into the biology, the physiology, the psychology of exactly what's happening.

So he's got both practical and theory combining together. It makes for a really powerful insight.

Before I get to the other news, don't forget that this Monday, the Modern Wisdom reading list is going live 100 books that you should read before you die.

It's taken me six months to do. It's nearly 10,000 words and there will be a ton of books that you have never heard of in that list.

I always get asked what my best books are that I recommend for fiction, for nonfiction, for personal development and just for stories and bedtime reading.

All of them are in there and you'll find out where you can get it this Monday, either on my Instagram, at Chris Willx or on the introduction to next Monday's episode.

So get ready, right? It's going to be very fun.

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