Live and Die in L.A. with Neil Strauss : 570
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
One of my favorite authors is back on the show! Neil Strauss is an award-winning, 10-time New York Times best-selling author. He was a music critic, cultural reporter, investigative journalist and columnist at The New York Times for a decade and has been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone for more than 20 years. He's well-known for earning the trust of some of the most guarded and secretive celebrities in the world.
His life has been enthralling and complex: Remarkably insightful interviews with celebrities and musicians, award-winning journalism, successful authorship and ghostwriting, becoming a pick-up artist, reforming himself and his relationships, becoming a parent and hosting programs focused on healing trauma and transforming lives.
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, we talk about facing fears, discomfort and anxieties—how to tell the difference among them and what we get wrong about them. That leads us to a cognitive bias called the neglect of probability. As you may know, running from failure versus moving towards success is a very different mindset.
Neil shares his fascination with how beliefs get implanted and reinforced, and offers up a theory as to why so many people go off track when they're working on finding their passion and purpose. He says, “Do something you love enough that you care about each detail of it.” And that’s our cue to share some highlights of his intriguing new podcast—will it be called “’Gonzo?!”—that debuts this month.
Enjoy the show!
More about Neil Strauss
In addition to being an author of The Game, The Truth, Emergency and other books about his own personal experiences, he’s a respected and sought-after ghostwriter. He has co-authored numerous books, such as Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star; Mötley Crue’s, The Dirt (currently being produced by Netflix as a theatrical film); Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road; and Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home. Kevin Hart's I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons, entered The New York Times bestseller list at No. 1 while topping the best-selling audiobook list at the same time.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.7 | Today's cool fact of the day is that a healthy relationship starts with we. |
| 0:20.5 | You're like, Dave, that's not a cool fact of the day. |
| 0:22.7 | That's some sort of new generation, whatever platitude. |
| 0:26.8 | But I'm talking about research that really grew our body of evidence, saying that the |
| 0:31.1 | pronouns that you use can actually predict good relationship outcomes. |
| 0:36.7 | This is researched by UC Riverside Psychologist Megan Robbins, who emphasized the power |
| 0:41.1 | of first-person personal pronouns like we and us in relationships. |
| 0:45.7 | So if you say we, it's an indicator of interdependence, meaning that partners affect each other's |
| 0:51.0 | thoughts, feelings and behaviors. |
| 0:53.0 | And if you shift from that self-oriented eye to the relationship oriented, we, it makes |
| 0:57.4 | a difference. |
| 0:58.4 | Robbins and her team looked at 30 studies of 5,300 participants to say that couples |
| 1:03.7 | who say we and us are the ones who have better relationships. |
| 1:07.8 | About half the people that they said were married, they looked at relationship outcomes, |
| 1:12.3 | relationship behaviors, mental health, physical health and other health behaviors. |
| 1:15.7 | In all five of those categories, across all contexts and almost perfectly equal for |
| 1:20.5 | men and women, apparently we is greater than I or to put it the way there is no I and |
| 1:25.8 | we. |
| 1:28.4 | Speaking of relationships and things like that, when I wrote Game Changers, a book that |
| 1:35.5 | summarizes the wisdom and knowledge of almost 500 people who've done something not worth |
| 1:41.9 | enough to come on Bull proof Radio in their careers and in their lives, the research showed |
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