2. Who am I?
• American: MA, HI, SF
• Entrepreneur, Product
• Expert in digital health
• Passionate about microbiome
• One suitcase and AirBnBs
• One on one conversations over juice
3. Who are you?
• What’s your name?
• Where are you from?
• What do you do in Beijing?
• What made you interested in joining the session today?
4. Today’s Agenda
• Inspiration: Learning 4 daily practices (30min)
• Participation: Activity to apply practices to your life (20 min)
• Communication: Open-discussion (until brunch)
5. Sacrifice Comfort for Learning
• We all experience hard things: prevention trumps treatment
• Choose betterment or suffer with a quiet life of desperation
• Aim beyond your limits. Become a high-performer
Mental Toughness
a measure of individual resilience and confidence that applies to different aspects of life – game face
6. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
7. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
- Jim Rohn
8. 1.) Be the dumbest person in the room
Why?
• Kick the ego’s ass before the fight
• Pheromones: “They’re really rubbing off on you…”
How?
• Hire people who can take your job
• Make new friends, and throw away the old ones
• Hunt the people who have done it (cold call, email hunter, pay to play)
11. 2.) Take cold showers
Why?
• Recalibrate your tolerance for discomfort, pain, and hardship – Calm chaos
• Brown fat and other health benefits
How?
• Start slow, focus on progression (timed exposure)
• Graduate to ice-baths and breathing techniques
• Other tactics: bouncing, jumping rope, pushups, forest bathing
12. “I can accept failure… but I can’t accept not trying”
13. “I can accept failure… but I can’t accept not trying”
- Michael Jordan
14. 3.) Practice failure and use “no” therapy
Why?
• Increase your tolerance for fear, risk, and uncertainty – learn exponentially
• Probability: practice taking more shots
How?
• Set “hardly out of reach” goals
• Practice with simple transactions (Can I get a discount?)
• Learn from other people’s failures through stories
15. “If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do”
16. “If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do”
- Hermann Hesse
17. 4.) See what sacrifice feels like... stop eating
Why?
• Generate focus and mental acuity (and sex appeal)
• Spiritual discipline and empathetic sacrifice
How?
• Begin with caloric restriction by skipping meals
• Define an intermittent fasting (IF) window
• DDU til you hit 36 hours, eventually 3 day (water only)
18. “You have power over your mind – not outside events.
Realize this, and you will find strength.”
19. “You have power over your mind – not outside events.
Realize this, and you will find strength.”
- Marcus Aurelius
25. Resources
• “Meditations” – Marcus Aurelius
• Benefits of cold showers – Dr. Aaron Cypess
• Benefits of Intermittent Fasting – Dr. Dominic D’Agostino
• “You’re the average of the five people…” – Business Insider
• Benefits of Mindfulness -- Headspace
• The Science of Developing Mental Toughness – James Clear
• Mental Toughness Questionnaire 48 -- AQR
• Hunt down people better than you – Email Hunter
Hinweis der Redaktion
Challenges overcome by using mental toughness
Don’t anticipate, participate
By the end of this presentation.. 4 simple techniques
Permission: Are you guys ok if we get started?
Obstacles sudden pop up
– who has eveperienced an obstacle?
Mention dad cancer
Choice
– Who here would choose to have stronger mental toughness?
Full capacity, aim high, go far
GAME intro
Ego overpowers, hurts you in the long run
-exercise of low self-esteem
- break down muscles
Pheromones:
a chemical substance produced and released into the environment by an animal, affecting the behavior or physiology of others of its species.
- Talk similar
- Same amorism's
- Same nose
Look like pet
Make new friends – Hawaii garage story
Dreadlock stoner dude, watched movies all day
Chubby Frat dude who was constantly drunk, partying and loud
Made enough money to omve out
Hunt – Silver medalist, Justin Gatlin
All through ice: die of panic
Prevent the panic
Dr. Cypess Harvard Medical School: researchers found that cold bathing created a metabolic boost that allowed people to lose 9lbs over the course of 1 year without any other lifestyle changes
Being ok with failure makes uncertainty irrelevant
Probabilty – take more shots
Investors 93rd meeting
Moka bros (convince them I’m a marketer)
Who you want to buy
Buy their book
Highlight their problems
Last one: Because this is going to make us hungry
Christianity has lent, also a practice andimprove mental toughness
Eat a big lunch, don’t eat dinner
[IF] Window 9-12p 15 hours of fasting
Choice
You just got 4 huge hacks for increasingmental toughness
Activity