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Meditation is a Waste of Time: Becoming Heavily Meditated With Dave Asprey

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Episode Highlights With Dave

  • What led to him writing a book about meditation and what surprised him most
  • Why meditation is one of the most impactful tools he uses
  • How he went from learning to put butter in coffee on the side of a mountain in Tibet to the father of biohacking
  • What makes this book different from any other books about meditation
  • Meditation as it's typically understood is a waste of time- here’s why
  • False: Everyone should meditate more (not necessarily)
  • 98% of humans were involved in agriculture for the last few thousand years, and how this matters for the personalization of meditation
  • “ If I can trigger you, it means you are a loaded gun”
  • He's woken up at 5 am to meditate for long periods of time and what he learned from this
  • Techniques that go beyond meditation to amplify the results
  • Understanding the actual goal of meditation to get real results and not just waste time
  • Somatic practices and why these can work most quickly
  • The recipe he uses with top executives called the RESET method, which is a somatic practice
  • Dark is one of the most underrated supplements in the world… here’s why
  • How to change your state, just with light
  • How he and I both experienced absolute darkness in a cave (separately), and what we learned from this
  • Your body processes reality before you have time to think
  • What's missing from meditation and psychology teaching and how understanding this can be life-changing

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Episode Highlights With Dave

  • What led to him writing a book about meditation and what surprised him most
  • Why meditation is one of the most impactful tools he uses
  • How he went from learning to put butter in coffee on the side of a mountain in Tibet to the father of biohacking
  • What makes this book different from any other books about meditation
  • Meditation as it's typically understood is a waste of time- here’s why
  • False: Everyone should meditate more (not necessarily)
  • 98% of humans were involved in agriculture for the last few thousand years, and how this matters for the personalization of meditation
  • “ If I can trigger you, it means you are a loaded gun”
  • He's woken up at 5 am to meditate for long periods of time and what he learned from this
  • Techniques that go beyond meditation to amplify the results
  • Understanding the actual goal of meditation to get real results and not just waste time
  • Somatic practices and why these can work most quickly
  • The recipe he uses with top executives called the RESET method, which is a somatic practice
  • Dark is one of the most underrated supplements in the world… here’s why
  • How to change your state, just with light
  • How he and I both experienced absolute darkness in a cave (separately), and what we learned from this
  • Your body processes reality before you have time to think
  • What's missing from meditation and psychology teaching and how understanding this can be life-changing

Resources Mentioned

  continue reading

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