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Julien Pineau: Q Training, Sprinting, and Improving Your Mental Game with Exercise

Decoding Superhuman

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The Power of the Sensation of Self

I think the sense of self is actually a function of the threat system. If you feel like you're out of a threat at an existential threat, you start to pump that flight mode and pump the energy level to the max. As long as you can win the fight, if you were up to go into losing the fight, it would crash it on the tickles. It would end up in freeze where the body is not capable of dealing with whatever was happening. So we could have some moments where it'd be interesting to go there as a way to ask our self existentialist questions. Do I want this or no? But if you lose, the price is very high.

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