Triggered Much? How to Avoid Extremes and Find Your Middle Ground – Sam Qurashi with Dave Asprey : 786

The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance

Dave Asprey

Hacking, Science, Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Diet, Brain, Meditation, Nutrition, Biohacking, Wellness, Lifestyle, Fasting, Fat, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, my guest is Sam Qurashi, a self-professed “unorthodox psychologist” who walked away from a psychiatric residency at an addiction hospital because he wanted to help people in a different way. He’s actively working to change people’s interactions with the external world.

Sam’s now a writer and entrepreneur with a following of more than 700K (and rapidly growing) on Instagram. He shares thoughts, concepts and questions we can ask ourselves to interrupt the psychological patterns that keep us trapped in mental loops of our own design.

“The best way to trigger a change is to create an interruption, but how do you create an interruption that does not cause stress?” he asks. “How do you create an interruption that is gentle, that is a way to get people to reflect?”

His framework for growth and change requires that we question ourselves and consider a model of learning he’s developed called liminalism. He looked at the common approaches people have about learning and living in the extremes and realized how little they actually benefit our personal reality or truth.

“A lot of people live in extremes,” Sam says. “If you live in an extreme, you're limited automatically.”

“What lives between black and white is not gray,” he explains. “It's literally the entire color spectrum. Balance, focus, flexibility, options, choice–that lives in the middle ground.”

He learned how to change his own perceptions of the world by interviewing experts that live beyond the frame of traditional psychology. Our discussion explores the interesting lessons Sam learned from a pickpocket, hypnotist, cold reader, tea master, horse whisperer and others.

One of the things that had him curious was how they viewed fear.

“Fear lives in the future,” Sam says. “The future doesn't exist but fear just visited me in the present moment. So, if I jump, I'm actually racing fear into the future. If I get there first, I'm obliterating the fear.”

Listen on to find out how you can avoid extremes in your life, find your personal middle ground, and face your fears.

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0:00.0	Would you believe it if I said that there is an ancient plant medicine that might be the alcohol of your future?
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1:04.0	Give it a try.
1:06.0	Food proof radio, a state of high performance.
1:18.0	Sam Karashi, a North-A-Doc psychologist who says he walked away from a psychiatric residency at an addiction hospital because he wanted to help people in a different way.
1:38.0	He's now a writer and entrepreneur with a following of almost 700,000 on Instagram and he shares thoughts and concepts that can interrupt the psychological patterns that keep all of us trapped in mental loops that we don't know are happening but actually are happening.
2:00.0	Today I just want to talk with Sam about the lessons he's learned from those masters so we can summarize that and we can teach that to you in this episode.
2:08.0	It's good for emotional healing but honestly it's just good for self awareness which is the big thing because when you have programs running that you don't know about they're there for a reason and it's just hard to see them.
2:20.0	And I think you're going to find that Sam is uniquely equipped to talk about this.
2:24.0	Sam, welcome to the show.
2:26.0	Thank you Dave. It's good to be here.
2:28.0	Now we connected over the summer which was really fun and we connected in like you're one of the few people I actually had a chance to meet and an appropriate social distance way and all of that.
2:42.0	And that hooked me up with your work.
2:45.0	So it's very interesting to interview someone who is also curating information from the masters and all of that. And given that you've interviewed so many people and you've studied the medical side of things.
2:58.0	What is the number one thing that surprised the heck out of you after you stepped out of the traditional world and started looking around all the things you've looked at the top one.
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