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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