Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Bear Performance Podcast. I am your host,

Nick Bear, founder and CEO of Bear Performance Nutrition. And today I want to do something

a little bit different. There have been a lot of things I have been reading, studying

and working on recently, more so than ever before. And I want to start sharing some of

those things with you. So this is all about what I'm reading, studying and working on

at the moment. And there is a lot. There's a lot that I've been diving into recently,

especially with some of my free time after transitioning out of Ironman Prep and the

Challenge Cancun Race, where I was training three hours a day from strength training,

running, swimming, cycling. And with some of that free time now and more energy and feeling

very normal again. I've had the burning desire to learn more and more and more, which has

been a constant in my life for the last 10 plus years. But more so recently, I've found

some passions and some passion projects that I want to share with you guys. Before we

dive into it, I do want to bring up. I was recording an episode with Adam Klingk in the

podcast studio that we're building out right now last week. And during that episode, we

decided to light some incense before getting started. It was me, Adam and Yoli. Yoli was

running the camera gear and the audio equipment. And why it came in and he let some incense

in the room before getting started. And we didn't even think about it. We closed the door.

And before you know it, I could feel my eyes lighting on fire 15 minutes into the episode.

And the incense was just filling the room. And if you could just picture this, it's I'm

trying to hold this conversation with Adam. And during this conversation, I could see

us both to start blinking a lot in the room, just like filling with the smoke of the incense

that we lit. With that being said, we will never do that again. That was a mistake that

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