The Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf

“a lot of people call them Squirrel suits, its just a wing suit. Squirrel is actually a manufacturer of one of the suits. Fantastic branding. They happen to be the suit that I jumped.”

“and then you pitch through that and there is terrain below you, that's how a lot of people die. But the suit itself is basically that. There's wings. There's a large wing between your leg, a wing underneath your arm on both the left and right hand side. And they come in a variety of sizes. So learning it is simple, not easy. First off, skydive before you throw a wingsuit on in the skydiving world.”

“open up. And then on landing, it gets a little bit wild. So it can get as much as you want. And then wingsuiting is just a part of that. But you can jump a smaller wingsuit. So if the suits I ended up jumping had a lot of fabric because I wanted to have a nice glide ratio and I wanted to be able to extend the amount of time in the air.”

“this first four seconds that you have to deal with, where the suit feels really sloppy. It doesn't feel rigid and you can't really do anything until it powers up and you can pull away. So that's kind of the activities.”

“You see that in the wingsuiting community. I would say specifically the wingsuit-based jumping community. The fatality rate is high. I would never tell anybody that it is a safe activity, but I think you can do it as safely as possible.”

“Yeah. Yeah. I think he had gotten away with it more than he had nailed it. And I had to. Would you let your kids squirrel suit? Do I have the right to stop them? Yes. No.”

“Yeah, I didn't, uh, it, to me, it just seemed natural. I didn't even give it a second thought. Yeah, but you're also jumping out off mountainsides in squirrel suits. Yeah, but I'm telling you, if you've ever tasted that nine volt the way I did, you might, you might actually be like, so what is this progression?”

“individual jumps. Some people go, like I went right to the first time I did a skydive, I had an instructor holding onto me from for both sides until my parachute deployed. It's a very structured program that most modern drop zones will have. A lot of people will do a tandem first, which I recommend. If you've never done it and you're uncertain about whether or not”

“Skydiving is two parachutes, main parachute and reserve. Reserve is packed by an FAA rigger. And I believe it's for one period of time, it was 90 days in between pack jobs. I think it's six months in between pack jobs now, but full, they open it up, the reserve, they open the parachute up, they inspect it. They make sure that the canopy is good. The lines are good.”

“activation devices have saved hundreds of lives. So that reserve parachute is packed by a rigger, most civilian jumpers will pack their own main parachute. It takes five minutes for an experienced jumper, maybe 20 minutes for somebody who is learning. And you can go do, I think the most jumps I've ever done in a day was probably 30.”

“So you can track your spit to where you are going to deck if you don't pull your parachute. Now, on the first one, he's holding onto the pilot chute. So it rips it off for you. So you don't have to worry about it. But you want to talk about that right back into that space. Holy cow.”

“two and a half minutes. Same jump, different choices. Not that you're going to be able to sit, you know, necessarily flying farther out. You still need to pack your parachute correctly and all those things, but your likelihood of impacting a tree at a hundred miles an hour with your face is a lot better than flying six feet off the ground around corners that hopefully you've”

“I think there's just value in having your body flooded with adrenaline somewhat against your will, but you're controlling some of it and learning. I think it's a great space to explore.”

“Okay. That's a reasonable theory. That's actually what the ice bath will do. That's what a morning workout will do. It turns out that's not what happens when, when people go into these flow states and you get this long tail of, of flow opportunities, because the tendency when people's stress threshold goes up too high is that they tend to engage in a lot of meaningless behaviors because they're”

“if they hate cardio. If you love the ice bath, your anterior mid-singulate cortex, which by the way, predicts successful dieting, predicts successful completion of any of other hard things, all of that relates to whether or not the thing that you're introducing is something that you do not want to do in the moment that you do it.”

“Figure it out. Which in your case is an ice bath. Well, I'm just teasing. 80. Yeah. Set the sauna to 105, which is the perfect temperature for a sauna. Easy. I mean, you could put one in the other. You could ice bath and sauna. How much research has been done on that, Andrew? Not enough. We could create the world's first ice bath sauna.”

“I was like, I thought I knew you. And I quickly went to, yeah, but I go into the sauna at 220 degrees Fahrenheit. You know, which I do. I'm very heat tolerant, not as cold tolerant. I like to do cold shower, cold plunge or whatever. Like, you know, low 40s now.”

“That'd be 20 minutes. And then go into the, you don't want to start right off with that, right. And then go into the cold. And so they packed the sauna, they cranked that thing up and they kept resetting the clock. And literally he'll tell you, I was down on the floor where it's, you know, not cool, but it's still colder.”

“Set the sauna to 105, which is the perfect temperature for a sauna. Easy. I mean, you could put one in the other. You could ice bath and sauna. How much research has been done on that, Andrew? Not enough. We could create the world's first ice bath sauna.”

“To me, it's the small stuff that nobody sees that makes the biggest difference in the world. It's the choice to have the water before your coffee. It's the choice to the night before you go to bed, if you're, you know, you're going to have a busy day. Yeah. Meal prep, or if you're going to have a breakfast that is other than ready to eat or complicated, do all the prep work beforehand.”

“position. And if they beat you, great. Take my advice for that. So jujitsu, coffee, podcast. I guess I can say I'm an author now. I have no plans. I had no plans for a second book. I had no plans for a first book. But here we are. All of those things.”

“You know, which I do. I'm very heat tolerant, not as cold tolerant. I like to do cold shower, cold plunge or whatever. Like, you know, low 40s now. All right. To me, there is nothing as reliable and provided you don't like jump into an ice hole or something stupid like that or do, you know, hyperventilation breathing and then jump into cold water, which has killed people.”

“What protocol would you use? I like to have my cold plunges about 80. What would you do? Like 10 in five out a couple of times. 80 degrees. 80 degrees. It's great. I can bump it to 85. Yeah. If you think that that's a little too low. You know, team guys have this advantage that they did all that.”

“Don't do the bed. I would say start as early as you can with some semblance of a discipline act. If you don't want to do the bed, drink, drink. A 16 ounce glass of water in the morning before you have a cup of coffee. Not many people enjoy doing that, especially if it's not flavored with something. But I tell you what, I implemented that and it's kind of amazing how much better you feel”

“To me, it's the small stuff that nobody sees that makes the biggest difference in the world. It's the choice to have the water before your coffee. It's the choice to the night before you go to bed, if you're, you know, you're going to have a busy day. Yeah. Meal prep, or if you're going to have a breakfast that is other than ready to eat or complicated, do all the prep work beforehand.”

“Pick the choice as often as possible, that is slightly more difficult. And the reason why the bed doesn't work for some people is that you have somebody you care about deeply still sleeping on the other side. And maybe your day starts at a time where they're not ready to get out of bed, right? So you don't want to negatively impact somebody else's life.”

“pulled out a chart and said, this is what you weigh. This is your dosage. You are now at the threshold. If we give you more, your heart's going to stop. So they stopped the morphine, put me on Dilaudid, barely touching the pain at the maximum dosage of Dilaudid. But that was the worst pain I've ever been in.”

“Yeah. Morgan Housel has a, he has a couple of really good books. I actually like the second one more. They're both excellent. But the second one is called The Art of Spending Money. Which sounds like, you know, you're the rich guy. Telling people how to spend their money. Very interesting book. Mostly secular.”

“There's a wonderful book in addition to yours. It turns out there's another great book out there. How dare someone? No audio version, but it's called The Secret Pulse of Time. And it's about time perception.”