How to Deal With Cold Exposure

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I was very inspired by him, not only because he's capable of superhuman physical feats, but because he does it while being incredibly kind and happy. He advocates cold exposure because he believes ple are too separate from their natural environment. We're constantly clothed, fed and warm. Our bodies have lost touch with the cold. The cold is important because it can activate the immune system. So he advocates taking long ice baths. Being from the indian sub continent, i'm strongly against the idea of ice baths. But whim inspired me to give cold showers a try. And i did so by using the whim hoff breathing method. It involves hyper ventilating to get more oxygen into your blood

As Naval says, life is a single-player game. No one else is going to make you rich. No one else is going to make you healthy. No one else is going to make you happy. You have to learn the discipline and clarity of living your own life your own way. Naval shows you the basics he has learned of health, diet, exercise, meditation, and mental strength. This is Naval’s basic blueprint for a happy life and a wealthy life. It starts with how you build yourself -- the foundation of everything.

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Important Quotes from the podcast on Choosing Yourself:

All you should do is what you want to do. If you stop trying to figure out how to do things the way other people want you to do them, you get to listen to the little voice inside your head that wants to do things a certain way. Then, you get to be you. - Naval Ravikant

Your goal in life is to find the people, business, project, or art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you. What you don’t want to do is build checklists and decision frameworks built on what other people are doing. You’re never going to be them. You’ll never be good at being somebody else. - Naval Ravikant

Important Quotes from the podcast on Choosing To Care For Yourself:

When everyone is sick, we no longer consider it a disease. - Naval Ravikant

We evolved for scarcity but live in abundance. - Naval Ravikant

I’m not an expert, and the problem is diet and nutrition are like politics: everybody thinks they’re an expert. Their identity is wrapped up in it because what they’ve been eating or what they think they should be eating is obviously the correct answer. Everybody has a little religion—it’s just a really difficult topic to talk about. I will just say in general, any sensible diet avoids the combination of sugar and fat together. - Naval Ravikant

When it comes to medicine and nutrition, subtract before you add. - Naval Ravikant

World’s simplest diet: The more processed the food, the less one should consume. - Naval Ravikant

Important quotes from the podcast on Exercise:

The harder the workout, the easier the day. - Naval Ravikant

What I did was decide my number one priority in life, above my happiness, above my family, above my work, is my own health. It starts with my physical health. [4] Because my physical health became my number one priority, then I could never say I don’t have time. In the morning, I work out, and however long it takes is how long it takes. I do not start my day until I’ve worked out. I don’t care if the world is imploding and melting down, it can wait another thirty minutes until I’m done working out. - Naval Ravikant

How you make a habit doesn’t matter. Do something every day. It almost doesn’t matter what you do. The people who are obsessing over whether to do weight training, tennis, Pilates, the high-intensity interval training method, “The Happy Body,” or whatever. They’re missing the point. The important thing is to do something every day. It doesn’t matter what it is. The best workout for you is one you’re excited enough to do every day. - Naval Ravikant