Coach for SpaceX & OpenAI destroys your limiting beliefs for 88 minutes straight

“So, and you can read a book about this. It's called Descartes' Error. It was written by a neuroscientist in like 2012 or something. And so we've known this for a long time. So basically, if I pull out that emotional part of your brain, it's going to take you like a half an hour to decide what color pen to use.”

“And then the kids were where the big emotional work came in was like really learning. There was this thing called hand in hand parenting, which I highly recommend, a book called Listen, which is like one of the most profound practices in my life. And that was really where the big emotional understanding started coming in that, like, oh, I can be with my children in these big emotions.”

“And then also, what was it? It's like the Marcus Aurelius. Yeah, there's a great stoic book, Stoicism book, where you like close your eyes for five minutes and you assume everyone's dead, your kids have cancer, the worst things on earth.”

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“What about the nervous system bit? Because that seems like the most challenging. I've read the body keeps the score and I like intuitively know that like trauma is a physical thing. But like to put it on a really practical level, you ever get like a slack or an email from a coworker that says, can we talk?”

“the marriage. The visualization thing is interesting. The inner game of tennis talks a lot about that. Great book. And I actually just listened to a talk by the coach of George St.”

“The samurai use this. I mean, so many traditions use this, which is visualizing their own death. And the Tibetan book of living and dying samurai. And then also, what was it? It's like the Marcus Aurelius.”