491: How to Rewire Your Brain and Control Your Emotions for Unshakable Mental Strength | Dave Asprey
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Dave Asprey is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, creator of Danger Coffee, and host of the top-ranked podcast The Human Upgrade. His latest book, Heavily Meditated, offers a fast-track method to dissolve stress, rewire your brain, and reclaim emotional control using cutting-edge neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and high-performance tools.
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| 0:29.0 | Tees and Cs apply. |
| 0:30.4 | What up, team? |
| 0:30.9 | It's episode 491 of the genius life. |
| 0:35.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:36.6 | Yes, genius. A boomer. Max. the genius life let's go what's going what's going on everybody I'm your host max lug Lugavir, and welcome back to The Genius Life, |
| 0:57.3 | a show where we unpack the tools you need to live healthier, longer, and smarter, and occasionally |
| 1:02.1 | how to meditate so hard you trip balls. Today, I'm joined by none other than Dave Asprey. |
| 1:07.6 | Biohacker, entrepreneur, host of the human upgrade, and author of the new book |
| 1:11.5 | Heavily Meditated. In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the biggest |
| 1:16.3 | lie we believe about our own minds, why your body actually hears reality before your brain does, |
| 1:23.0 | and how you can reclaim your nervous system and emotional state with powerful techniques that go way beyond traditional meditation. |
| 1:30.4 | From orgasm optimization, yes seriously, to AI-assisted healing, to how pain can be harnessed as a performance enhancer, |
| 1:38.3 | this is a conversation that might stretch your brain, but in the best possible way. |
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