If you were to give us like the ultimate survival kit, what would you tell us?

So it's a great question.

If you, believe it or not, the answer to most stress isn't in techniques or tools after the stress happens.

It's in preparing yourself before the stress happens.

So CIA teaches us about something called willpower.

Everybody's heard the term willpower, but very few people have defined what willpower is.

Most people would argue that willpower is some mixture of discipline and commitment, right?

Like it's follow through. I'm just gonna tough it out

that's actually not what willpower is willpower in in definition at CIA willpower

according to psychology is an actual measurable amount of energy and energy is

measured in kilojoules and those kilojoules are carried in your body. And it's a mixture of

your fitness and your diet and your hydration level. And all of that tells you what your capacity is

for willpower. So if you think of like a car, a car has a tank, a gas tank, a fuel tank. When that fuel tank is full, the car can go a long

distance. When the fuel tank is empty, the car can't go as far. But there's also the value of the

quality of the fuel itself. If the fuel is a high octane, clean fuel, the car can go even further on a full tank, then it could go

with a lower octane fuel.

So when you compare your body to a car, what that means is you want to fuel your car with

willpower, fuel your body with willpower.

And that willpower is literally what you put in your body.

So we put a lot of natural sugars.

We put a lot of hydrating, high fiber,

nutrient dense materials into our system.

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