How To Train Your Willpower (Part 2) with Dave Asprey

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

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🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Here are the action steps you can take to train your willpower

Is it possible to train willpower? The answer is yes if you know the core issues waning your willpower. And that’s what Dave Asprey breaks down for you in this episode. You’ll be learning the bulletproof way of training your willpower based on the “Fs” of Fear, Food, F**k, and additionally Fat, Feel and Figure.

We highly recommend you listen to the previous episode, "Dave Asprey on hacking the 3 “F” words of willpower (Part 1)” so you don’t miss out on the additional information he’s shared there.

"The most powerful thing might not be learning how to turn off the fear but learning how to feel when you go into it.” — Dave Asprey

Highlights from the episode:

The effects of the fight or flight mode and what you can do about it
Recognizing the different rhythms between a fear-based heartbeat versus a calm heartbeat
How to incorporate Heart Rate Variability Training into your everyday life
Dave shares a breathing exercise to help you move from sympathetic to a parasympathetic nervous system
The tools Dave uses to turn the dial down on fear (links in resources below)
An exercise Dave does with his kids before they sleep to help them train their resilience towards wins and failures
What happens when you don’t get enough sleep and what to do about it for your body
How neurofeedback training can help you to turn off the mental chatter that feeds your fears
The 3 letter “F” word that helps Dave to maintain a stable delivery of energy to his head
The active changes in your body when you stop eating food which causes inflammation and cravings
How Dave experimented with the Taoist equation to immortality by basing it on Napoleon Hill’s book, "Think and Grow Rich."

People mentioned in the episode:

Emily (Fletcher)
HeartMath Institute
40 Years of Zen
Vishen Lakhiani
Dr. Mark Hyman
Harvey Kellogg
Napoleon Hill

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Heart Rate Variability training
Heart-opening Buddhist meditation
Burning Man
Bulletproof Stress Detective
Inner Balance Trainer by the HeartMath Institute
Hypnotherapy
Neuro-feedback training
Eat Fat, Get Thin by Dr. Mark Hyman
The Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey
Bulletproof Coffee
Bulletproof Intermittent Fasting
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Orgasm vs. Performance by Dave Asprey in the Quantified Self Conference

We’d recommend you listen to Dave’s previous episode:

Dave Asprey on hacking the 3 “F” words of willpower (Part 1)

For more materials, we’d recommend the following articles:

Here’s a powerful quote by Dave for you to leave with,

"It’s not important that you look a certain way, it’s important that you feel a certain way."

— Dave Asprey

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Transcript

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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	Everyone always wants to start with the third F, but we'll get there, I promise.
0:25.0	Let's talk about fear. I'll talk about fight or flight.
0:27.0	One of the things that I use with my clients
0:30.0	and just one of the things I teach is heart rate variability training.
0:35.0	This was profoundly effective for me.
0:37.0	In fact, if they do this before soldiers go into combat,
0:40.0	the soldiers have a much harder time getting PTSD.
0:43.1	All you do with this kind of exercise
0:45.2	is you clip $100 sensor to your ear
0:47.4	or use a chest strap, and you look at your iPhone.
0:51.5	And it tells you to breathe in, breathe out.
0:55.6	Emily just told you to do that, right?
0:58.6	There's just a little difference.
1:00.6	The difference is that you need to breathe in and breathe out and make the light turn green.
1:05.0	And when the light turns green, it means that you've successfully changed the space between your
1:10.0	heartbeats, which sounds a little bit odd. It's because when an animal is in that fear space,
1:15.0	whether you're getting ready to fight or run away,
1:18.0	your heartbeat becomes very regular.
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