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#245: The Magic, Misdirection, and Mindset of David Blaine

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How to Hold Your Breath for Longer

The cold doesn't help you hold your breath for longer, but it's just an interesting concept that you can hold your breath while you're freezing. So the fasting, I also read Kafka, the hunger artist. The guy is a dime circus performer and nobody wants to see him. Nobody ever shows up. He decides he's going to sit in a little cage and he'm going to go,I think, for a month or no month and a half without food. And then as he starts fasting, he starts to get skinny, skinny, skinny,. At the end of the Kafka story, there's tons of people there, but he's gone. He's just rippled away

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