Hacking the Body's Hidden Superpowers | Wim Hof EP 597

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Wim Hof has spent decades pushing his body to superhuman feats in frigid waters and hazardous environments, learning to consciously regulate typically involuntary physiological processes while eliminating fears of mortality. Hof attributes much of his seemingly impossible abilities to the devoted spiritual seeking and intense cold exposure he began at 17, which enabled him to withstand over two minutes trapped under ice and catalyzed profound insights about the nature of suffering and consciousness. His continual quest to achieve the next record stems from a core belief that we can always go further when we commit wholly and reject limitations, as confronting self-imposed constraints allowed Hof to find beauty in apparent agony and peace while confronting death. Now dedicating his life to teaching others his methods, Hof wants to empower the public to realize we can all transcend imaginary boundaries to achieve the extraordinary.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Louis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	What was the first test that you did? How old were you? When you first were like let me get exposed to water or to cold or to the breathing
0:18.8	Yeah at 17.
0:23.0	Already from 12 years old.
0:25.0	I was on to psychology, Hinduism, Buddhism and all that.
0:28.0	Yes.
0:29.0	Yeah, that's something deep.
0:31.0	It's inside and it doesn't know what it is but wants to know what it is so you
0:36.9	dive into your grave and you dig in and all kinds of traditions, cultures, disciplines I did before and when I was
0:46.5	17 I got into this cold thing.
0:49.8	If you have been looking and all kinds of things already you become a
0:53.6	searching for something a researcher a researcher actually of the life
0:58.2	but that you still didn't fight it but when you fight it you know what it that it is there. So I found out that was bang. So from there on I built up I built up I
1:11.3	challenge my body more and more more and more and more and more.
1:14.8	And I was very secluded because everybody thought I was crazy and I still am.
1:21.0	But that you're more accepted.
1:22.4	Yes, yes, yes, more accepted. Yes, you could say that. You could say that. But you need crazy people, you need pioneers. You need people who go beyond it all what we think because now we found out as the first group in the
1:38.0	scientific history to be able to influence into the autonomic nervous system, the immune system, the endocrine system,
1:46.6	take possibly away depression, fear, trauma, because those are the real terrorists.
1:53.0	Did you grow up living in fear or trauma from anything?
1:56.0	I think I never was satisfied with what was going on in the world.
2:00.0	That's a traumatic birth.
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