How To Use Stress To Your Advantage And Perform Better In Just About Any Situation – Scott Carney (Ep. 272)

Scott Carney, investigative journalist, anthropologist, and NYT best-selling author, joins our show in this special episode of the Elite Man Podcast! In today’s episode Scott talks about developing a powerful technique for dealing with stressful situations known as The Wedge. Scott talks about the many instances where hijacking your body’s instinctive response can be beneficial and how to train yourself to be able to do this at will. He also talks about his crazy experiences hiking up mountains in the freezing cold with Wim Hof, taking Ayahuasca in Peru with a Shaman, and stepping into fear-inducing virtual simulators at MIT, among many other fascinating stories. If you’re wondering how to use stress to your advantage and perform better today, check this episode out now!     

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In our episode we go over:

• Why Scott had set out to debunk The Wim Hof Method and Wim Hof
• Why his position on Wim Hof completely changed after diving into his work and doing many of the unbelievable feats himself (right alongside Wim)
• The autoimmune condition that Scott was able to reverse while using Wim Hof’s method
• Being a skeptic while still being open-minded to different things, including superhuman feats
• Discerning conspiracy theories from reality and truth
• The real dangers of seeking superpowers and following charlatan gurus around the world
• Putting yourself through stresses and seeing how your body responds to these stresses
• Changing your body’s response and using it to your advantage
• Relaxing during chaotic, stressful times, often the exact opposite of your instinctive response
• How Scott came up with the concept of The Wedge in an ice bath with Wim Hof
• Driving a wedge between a stimulus and your response to the stimulus in your life
• The fact our body is constantly responding to the environment around it
• The time Scott became one with a mountain
• Understanding consciousness and life and our reality as we experience life
• Scott’s experience going into a virtual reality simulator at MIT and being surrounded by sharks in a virtual shark tank (exposure therapy)
• The fact that what when we experience something we connect it to something in the past (neural symbols)
• Getting into flow states by tossing around kettlebells with a massive gorilla-sized man
• Scott’s experience doing Ayahuasca in Peru with a shaman
• How his life changed after his psychedelic trip
• Going out and finding stresses to push you in your life and create a wedge
• The power of the Wim Hof breath and the wedge that exists in this exercise
• Cold showers and how to actually overcome the freezing cold feeling

Check out Scott on:

Website: scottcarney.com

Book: amazon.com/the-wedge

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