Q&A: The Benefits of Living a Proactive, Rather Than A Reactive Life

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Expert, Ben, 40, Pakulski, Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Intelligence, Biohacking, Mi, Intelligent, Mi40, Nutrition, Diet, Hormones, Muscle, Exercise

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the show everybody! For this Q&A session, Ben and Ashleigh are tackling some deep and esoteric questions around objective structures for your life, questioning our surroundings, the legacy of family experiences and the minds of sociopaths! Ben has just returned from Bali, back to the cold in Canada and he starts off by sharing how he managed to get some uncommonly good sleep while traveling back. From there the conversation turns to the idea of a proactive approach to your life, staying outcome-driven and how this can simplify your daily choices. Ben makes the argument that we all have an amazing ability to transform and shape our reality and that through inquisitiveness and commitment we are capable of almost anything. Ashleigh explains a little about what goes into the mind of someone without guilt and how we might all have a little bit of these sociopathic tendencies! We finish off the chat considering applying these ideas of objectifying habits to our nutrition, making it easier to stick to our plans and achieve our goals.

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Timestamps

Ben's recent experiences traveling and thinking about the dangers of the coronavirus. [0:39]
The benefits of a proactive, objective life rather than a subjective and reactive one. [2:45]
The uncommon and difficult skill of staying outcome-driven every day. [8:09]
Transformative power that we all have through the things we can control. [11:48]
The externalization of the conditions of our goals; it's much more internal! [16:44]
Having a constantly inquisitive attitude and questioning everything you know. [18:26]
Family dynamics and different experiences of growing up in the same home. [21:08]
A lack of guilt and what defines a sociopathic mindset. [24:02]
Self-preservation, fight or flight states and how this translates into modern life. [27:28]
Objectifying your nutrition habits and schedule; different ways to control your intake. [28:54]
Ben and Ashleigh's love for organ meat, olive oil, and BLUblox! [32:26]

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0:00.0	What's up, ladies and Jets, welcome to the Muscle Intelligence Q&A version. I've got my wonderful,
0:23.6	amazing, and beautiful co-host, Ashley, here with me. That's lovely. Thanks, Ben. I'm glad you're
0:29.5	back in the cold with the rest of us. No. I want to make a couple of days. Yeah, but you survived 30
0:36.1	hours of travel, so that's pretty impressive.
0:38.1	No, it was way less traumatic than I expected.
0:41.4	When I saw 30 hours on the, you know, that was booking my flight, I was like,
0:45.8	there's got to be a better way.
0:47.8	But it wasn't so bad.
0:48.8	So I flew from Bali, eight hours to Korea, and then had a nine and a half hour layover, and then did, I think, 13 or 14 hours to Korea and then had a nine and a half hour layover and then did I think 13 or 14
0:57.7	hours from Korea. So it worked out really, really well. My flight from Bali to Korea that it was a
1:03.4	1 a.m. flight and I'm never up to 1 a.m. So I kept myself awake and I literally slept from before we
1:09.7	took off to the time that my wheels hit down.
1:12.9	And I almost never do that.
1:14.4	But my sleep had been so scheduled in Bali, like I've been getting really good sleeps.
1:19.3	My body was just like, hey, I'm ready to go.
1:21.2	And I didn't move for eight hours, which was awesome.
1:24.8	That's impressive.
1:25.9	Okay, next question.
1:27.0	What is the airport like in,
1:29.8	I'm assuming, South Korea? Well, it was interesting. So I had nine and a half hours. I'm like,
1:33.7	all right, I got to go outside. I got to go see the city or something, except that, I don't
1:39.4	know if you noticed, but the second biggest breakout of coronavirus in the entire world was in
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