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The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™…
… my guest fits right into the podcast transition to The Human Upgrade because he gets into the grittiness of what humans can do to level themselves up. No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Greene shares science-backed knowledge about human nature.
You know you want to be more powerful, more in control and excellent at what you do.
Robert’s insights help you do just that. He gives you actionable tips that help you unlock limitations you may be putting on yourself so you can move your life upward and forward. (Similar to something I like to tell my team is great momentum: “up and to the right.”)
World leaders, military generals, business executives, philosophers, and hip-hop moguls alike revere Robert’s books.
After writing about mastery and power for more than two decades, he’s now become a TikTok sensation and the universal truth for a new generation.
He’s one of my favorite authors who’s profoundly influenced my own life and been on the podcast twice before. Both episodes are must listens: The 48 Laws of Power – #380 and The Laws of Human Nature – #575. I asked him back to talk about his latest book: “The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature.”
“In “The 48 Laws of Power,” I talk about deception and con artists,” Robert says. “But in The Laws of Human Nature, it's almost about self-deception, how we're con artists with ourselves, how we create an image of ourselves as being morally right, being a good person, being intelligent, being rational, being empathetic. Whereas in fact, we're usually quite far below that ideal. … Because your default position is to always look externally and blame other people.”
In “The Daily Laws,” he distills the best of his previous books and never-before-published material in to one amazing life guide for you. He lays out themes for each month of the year: Power, seduction, persuasion, strategy, human nature, toxic people, self-control, mastery, psychology, leadership, adversity and creativity. Within these themes he features a “daily law” for you to follow.
“By not looking at ourselves in an honest way, and glossing over our own flaws and weaknesses, we become trapped in patterns of behavior that we cannot control,” Robert says in his new book. “As the years go by, and the misreadings, missteps, and unrealistic decisions pile up, we can become bitter confused, and damaged.”
“The Daily Laws” is designed to reverse [these] toxic patterns and reconnect you to reality,” Robert says. “It takes aim at the various delusions we have all absorbed and seeks to attune your mind instead to the most entrenched traits of human nature and how our brains actually operate.”
Listen on for the truth bombs.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:05.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:10.0 | For 10 years across a thousand episodes and a quarter billion listens, my podcast has |
| 0:18.6 | elevated what you knew about the capabilities of your mind and body, and because we're |
| 0:24.0 | at the 10 year anniversary, I'm evolving Bulletproof Radio even further in my plan to |
| 0:29.8 | upgrade humanity, and I'm evolving myself as well. |
| 0:33.2 | I invite you to expand your knowledge, explore your performance, and embrace your possibility |
| 0:38.0 | with the human upgrade. |
| 0:39.8 | You'll meet bright thinkers and radical doers who push the boundaries of science, technology, |
| 0:44.6 | personal development, and human performance in every way imaginable. |
| 0:49.1 | Every guess you listen to, every topic you learn about, every new idea you discover |
| 0:53.8 | on this podcast is there to move you forward. |
| 0:57.1 | Join me on this next evolution upgrade your mind, body, and life. |
| 1:01.2 | And be sure that you're subscribed to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey on your favorite |
| 1:05.6 | podcast platform, so you hear every single episode. |
| 1:09.4 | My commitment to you is that the time you spend with me on the human upgrade will always |
| 1:14.0 | return more value to you than you spend on it. |
| 1:21.1 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 1:23.9 | Formerly Bulletproof Radio. |
| 1:26.4 | Dave is something I've been looking forward to for a long time because it is an interview |
| 1:32.6 | with one of my favorite living authors, and a guy who has had a huge, huge effect on my |
| 1:40.2 | career without even knowing it, although I've mentioned it to him before. |
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