Hacking The 3 "F" Words of Willpower (Part 1) with Dave Asprey

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Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This talk is part 1 of 2 by the one and only Dave Asprey of Bulletproof Coffee and host of Bulletproof Radio. Dave is a New York Times best-selling author and has spent over two decades on hacking his own biology to help him learn seemingly impossible things to transform himself into the success he is today. He has singlehandedly transformed the diets (and waistlines) of thousands of people around the world — not to mention, manage to hack his own biology to become Bulletproof.

In this episode, he breaks down the three things that are affecting a fundamental contributor to our successes and failures; Our willpower. Like most people, willpower is something that causes a lot of energy drain and something we wish we can conjure at any given moment. He’s here to help you understand the core causes of why it feels difficult to control it.

The biggest leak of willpower is applying your precious effort to things that are automated and urges from an untrained animal that’s thrashing inside your body

— Dave Asprey

Highlights from the talk:

Dave shares a story of his success and failures with willpower in his twenties
He explains the origins of willpower and the analogies to start hacking it
He shares the effects of the first “F” word of willpower on our abilities and general physiology
Our reactions and decision-making process is affected by something he calls, “The Labrador Brain"
Dave explains how the second “F” word of willpower is easily hackable once you understand the “why” behind your mental chatter
Getting to the root of energy drain, he explains how there exists a difference of speed within your body and mind
Dave get’s real with the third “F” word and how it responds to our basic instinct for humanity’s survival
Concluding part 1, Dave drops a challenge to all of us with an exercise we can begin practicing today

People and resources mentioned in the episode:

Vishen Lakhiani
40 Years of Zen

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Here’s a powerful quote by Dave for you to ponder on,

if you don’t have enough basic energy in your body, you will not have the willpower that you were meant to have

— Dave Asprey

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0:00.0	I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.
0:04.7	You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and
0:08.8	thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth of a mind, body, spirit, and work.
0:17.0	When Vision came on Bulletproof Radio, my podcast, he set a new record. There's been about 300 guests and his record
0:25.8	was for dropping the most F-bomb's of any guests ever. Which was kind of
0:29.8	cool actually because I wasn't expecting that in knowing vision.
0:33.0	It's because he coined some amazing words like unfuckwithable and rules and all the other things,
0:38.0	which are really great ways of explaining some really complex topics.
0:43.0	But one of the things that I'm going to do,
0:46.0	sort of to get even for that,
0:48.0	is I'm going to drop a lot of F-words here.
0:50.0	Is that I'm cool? The reason I'm going to do that is that we're talking about willpower today.
0:59.0	Willpower is something that I used to make $ million dollars when I was 26.
1:04.0	Unfortunately, I lost it when I was 28.
1:07.0	By the way, every reporter has ever written that
1:10.0	always forgets the second sentence.
1:11.0	I'm like, no, I've really been working like everyone else,
1:13.5	but I just had this brief moment of money
1:15.3	when I was young and didn't know how to keep it,
1:17.3	which is a different skill than how to make it.
1:19.6	And I was pushing with every fiber of my being because I was really, really tired and I was using my
1:29.4	willpower like you wouldn't believe. And yeah, I was fat. In fact, I was so fat that I'm like,
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