Thriving Beyond Comfort: How To Build Resilience & Optimize Health In A Modern World
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we are joined by Paul Taylor, an exercise physiologist, nutritionist, and neuroscientist currently completing a Ph.D. in applied psychology. As the Director of The Mind-Body-Brain Performance Institute, Paul aims to deliver resilience, leadership, and executive performance workshops to successful companies worldwide. How does he help others thrive under high-pressure situations? He sits down to explain…
Paul's book, Death by Comfort: How modern life is killing us and what we can do about it, is a compelling exploration of the urgent issues we face in today's society. Using neuroscience, anthropology, and nutrition, Paul reveals exactly what's wrong – and what we need to do to survive and flourish.
In this discussion, we cover:
- The key points behind Death by Comfort.
- How our digital connectivity and social disconnectivity impact our health.
- Why an environment of comfort and convenience doesn't work well for a hunter/gatherer genome.
- Factors that contribute to modern physical and mental health problems.
- The difference that nature makes on microbiomes.
Paul's advice is not just theoretical, it's practical and actionable. By fostering resilience, mental well-being, and reducing levels of burnout, Paul's background as a British Royal Navy Aircrew Officer continues to benefit individuals across the globe. Click play now to learn how his latest book can empower you to reframe your understanding of comfort and connectivity!
Ready to learn more about Paul and his insights? Visit his website here!
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| 0:24.6 | field, sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets and more. Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I guess today is Paul Taylor. He is the author of a book called |
| 0:44.0 | Death by Comfort. I think this to be pretty interesting. I don't know if you're |
| 0:48.1 | sitting down on your couch and you've ordered DoorDash and you're eating |
| 0:51.2 | christening creams as you listen but if you are this may cause you |
| 0:54.8 | some pause so welcome Paul I thank you Richard great to be here yeah well tell me a |
| 0:59.3 | bit about your background how did you get to become aware of this subject and write this book? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, look, my background is pretty eclectic. I'm ex-British Armed Forces. I spent eight years |
| 1:10.0 | flying in helicopters, hunting submarines, doing anti-submarine warfare. |
| 1:14.1 | Before I joined the forces I had a master's degree in exercise science and then when I was |
| 1:19.8 | doing search and rescue I did another master's in nutrition. |
| 1:23.0 | So this is an area that was always of interest to me and then I left the forces and I moved to Australia and set up as a physiologist and nutritionist and was working one-on-one with clients then started doing more and more |
| 1:36.2 | corporate work and then I realized after a while that it's not about telling people what to do. It's really about trying to impact their |
| 1:44.0 | behavior. So I did another postgrad in nutrition and now I'm doing my PhD |
| 1:49.0 | sorry in psychology. And it was really I started noticing just with dealing with corporates and |
| 1:56.4 | talking to people all the time about the health and well-being, just how people's |
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