Proven Resilience & Stress Adaptation Techniques with Joe De Sena & Paul Taylor
The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.7 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Can you inoculate yourself from stress? Paul Taylor, of the Mind-Body Brain Performance Institute, says you can. He calls himself a "PracAdemic," part practical part academic. He's a former British Armed Forces Aircrew Officer who is now a Neuroscientist, Exercise Physiologist & Nutritionist who is doing a Ph.D. in Psychology, focusing on resilience. His training includes rigorous military combat survival and resistance to interrogation.
In this episode, he and Joe discuss practical, proven techniques to build resilience and inoculate yourself from stress.
More About Paul Taylor
The MindBodyBrain Project podcast
Joe De Sena’s new book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families”
https://www.spartan.com/10Rules
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| 0:00.0 | The Stoic philosophers talked about voluntary discomfort and I think that things like Spartan are the antidote to today's world of comfort and I actually think that this is one of our biggest feelings |
| 0:17.0 | is this predisposition to comfort. Now if you're a hunter-gatherer and you're living in a friggin harsh world where you are struggling just to stay alive, you know, avoid predators and try and get enough food and enough warmth to stay alive. |
| 0:35.0 | Seeking comfort is a good thing, right? |
| 0:38.0 | Because you're all going to get around the fire, you're going to huddle up, you're going to tell tell stories and that's important for keeping the tribe together. |
| 0:46.0 | But when we transport that genome which hasn't changed by the way, |
| 0:51.0 | if we transport that 45,000 years later into a world where we have created |
| 0:59.1 | comfort and convenience everywhere. |
| 1:01.3 | Well you can sit on the couch and go I fancy McDonald's or |
| 1:04.6 | KFC or Dunkin Donuts whatever it is and you can just call up and this stuff gets |
| 1:08.9 | delivered. We have all this ability to avoid discomfort and I actually think it's one of the biggest things that is |
| 1:16.2 | bringing our species down. |
| 1:18.7 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe Descentenna, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 1:24.7 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 1:28.7 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here |
| 1:35.8 | on a Spartan up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 1:41.2 | Can you inoculate yourself to stress? |
| 1:43.0 | Paul Taylor of the Mind Body Brain Performance Institute says you can. |
| 1:47.0 | He calls himself a paracademic, part practical, part academic, |
| 1:50.0 | and he studies stress, resilience, and high performance. |
| 1:53.0 | He's Joe's guest on today's episode. |
| 1:55.0 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by the Exogen |
| 1:59.0 | Ultrasound bone healing system. |
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