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#350 - James Nestor - Change Your Breath, Change Your Life

Modern Wisdom

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Using Sports and Hobbies as Forcing Functions for Desired States

Sports and hobbies serve as a forcing function to put individuals in a desired state. Engaging in activities like extreme sports or free diving forces individuals to be fully present and focused, creating the state they want to be in. This process can be seen as reverse engineering the act to reach the desired state. These activities tap into our biological need for certain states that we may have neglected in modern life, where distractions are rampant during activities like exercising.

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