You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that we've been studying human superpowers for a very,

very long time, thousands of years, to be exact.

And one of the first documents to write about what people are capable of in highly unusual

circumstances is called the Yoga Sutras of Potangeli.

And this is a book that's been rewritten and researched extensively, and it's basically

196 rules, or laws, or descriptions of things people are capable of that have to do with

basically the process of becoming enlightened.

And in this book, there are about 25 give or take different unusual states that were

documented by this weird scientific thing we do called observation.

And these are things that people are capable of unusually, with meaningful, reasonable

amounts of science now showing that some of these are actually real.

So if you're wondering about this idea of becoming superhuman or getting the ability

to be far more intuitive and in touch with the world around you, and just to sort of

know things somehow in a way that isn't necessarily deductive cognitive rational, this is

a big part of how I make my decision making.

This is a big part of how, say venture capitalists, the very best ones say, I go with my gut

and I go with data.

And our our job as human beings is to be able to go with our gut and to double check it

with thinking.

And I think it's a cool fact of the day because, well, we're not the first people to think

of this.

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