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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Hack Your Learning To Make Information Stick – Jonathan Levi : 642

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Fat, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Biohacking, Lifestyle, Diet, Science, Self-improvement, Fasting, Nutrition, Hacking, Fitness, Brain, Wellness, Education

4.67.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is an accelerated learning expert and founder of the Superhuman Academy. Jonathan Levi is a serial entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker born and raised in Silicon Valley. 

Since 2014, he’s been one of the top-performing instructors on the online learning platform Udemy. He’s reached more than 250,000 people in 205 countries and territories. His latest book, “The Only Skill That Matters,” details his own journey and the techniques that anyone can use to learn faster. 

“As you know, the brain is the most complex object in the known universe,” Jonathan says. “So a simple, ‘Hey, here's how it works. Here's how it likes to process information. Here's what makes information more memorable to it. Here's how to retain and maintain your knowledge’—it’s life-changing for people.”

In our conversation, we talk about tangible hacks you can start using today to upgrade your own learning.

Enjoy the show!

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0:00.0

The joke I give in the book is you know you had 18 years of classes on how to

0:06.2

supposedly how to use your body. They were called physical education. You didn't

0:10.1

really learn how to use your body. You had six months to a year of very awkward

0:14.6

classes about how to use one specific part of your body, but no one ever taught

0:20.4

you how to use your brain. And as you know the brain is the most complex object in

0:25.0

the known universe. So a simple hey here's how it works, here's how it likes to

0:30.0

process information. Here's what makes information more memorable to it. And

0:35.1

here's how to retain and maintain your knowledge. You know it's life-changing for

0:40.4

people.

0:48.8

Will it prove radio a state of high performance?

0:53.6

You're listening to bulletproof radio with Dave Asbury. When you're stacking

0:58.2

your biohacks one of the most important things you can do is make sure that you

1:02.0

recover properly because you get rest. That's when your body recovers. In fact

1:07.7

that's part of the laziness principle from my book Smarter Not Harder. And one

1:12.1

of the things I like to use is an infrared sauna like Sunlighten. That's

1:16.8

because you actually rest while you're in the sauna, but more importantly it

1:20.8

makes you get really good sleep at night. There are tons of studies that show

1:25.5

that sauna heat works really really well. And the kind of deeply effective

1:30.9

rest you get when you get out of the sauna is what retarges you physiologically

1:35.3

and mentally. Better yet because you're detoxing in the sauna you'll be able to

1:39.7

handle the stress that you face every single day. Sunlighten has four sauna

1:44.6

collections. Each has a different combination of light and heat and invest in

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