THIS HIDDEN NERVE CONTROLS ANXIETY

THIS HIDDEN NERVE CONTROLS ANXIETY

Every mental health complication or diagnosis is increasing and I’ve worked with different scientists and done a lot of experimentation on myself having grown up with multiple depressive episodes every year to see if there are root causes that we can address. And so I’ll just throw out a few things that have been very very helpful. First there’s brain stimulation. When I did this I had months of no anxiety. Then there’s something called Vegas nerve stimulation. and one of the most heavily cited scientists of the last 30 years has seen a wild collection of benefits. I want to talk about all of that as well, but the variety of things that you write about, talk about is so wide. So, what is the question that most people should ask you? How do you break down complicated subjects and accelerate your ability to learn because time is one of our most valuable non-renewable resources? And so, I have a framework that you can apply to any subject matter. And if you figure that out, you’re ahead of 99.9% of the world. What do you think is the question most people want to ask you? So, there’s a lot of questions around mental health and I feel like I have a moral obligation to help people because I was uh sexually abused by a babysitter’s son on a weekly basis. I was this close to killing myself and it can have a lot of effects, but these are things that you can slowly chip away at. and instead of feeling like you’re held captive by them, feel like you can take the pain and make it part of your medicine.

What if success is just another form of distraction?

This is what Tim Ferriss has spent his entire life trying to prove.

For those of you who don’t know who Tim is, he’s dedicated the last 20 years to studying what the human mind and body are actually capable of.

And he’s best known for ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’, a book that made millions of people think about how much time they actually want to spend working.

We spoke about how he believes pain plays a big part in success but it wasn’t until he stepped back through therapy that he began to understand what he was really chasing…

We cover:

– What drives our need to constantly optimise…
– How childhood shapes our hunger for control?
– The link between trauma and achievement.
– Why do high achievers struggle to slow down?
– Can you still grow without constantly pushing yourself?

I wouldn’t be doing what I do without people like Tim – he took a risk before anyone believed that long and honest conversations could work.

This episode reminded me how much of what we create stands on the work of others and I’m grateful for that.

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