speaker-0: The day that I got the shot, I think I'd slept nine hours continuously.
speaker-1: Hello everyone. Welcome to Brain Hope Reality. We have an unbelievable guest today. Eurocrusher. A lovely term. Thank you very much for coming back. You are my episode number
speaker-0: Wow, is that right? What I'm so happy to be back, man. We love you. We love you.
speaker-1: Love you buddy. You you and your bride has always been a joy for me to think about. And it's been interesting to s I've been watching you kind of peripherally, how you've been doing, and it's ⁓ you're an amazing guy. What could I tell you? So what I want to talk about, three things today if that's okay. One, I'd love to see what's new in the last two years, which I'm sure there's I am shocked that you were over fifteen and you're still performing at this craziest level of performance. You just did Joe Rogan. I love being sloppy seconds, just so you know.
speaker-0: That's great. That's great. Who does it? Who doesn't? I'm all warmed up. I'm all warmed up.
speaker-1: Yeah, I'll come back for the real house. Right there. We we're gonna put the picture in of you and I arm wrestling and you cry from be attacking you. Yeah. It got me it was staged.
speaker-0: Exactly, exactly. Yeah. ⁓ You you you got me at a very enlightened state. I was very at peace with everything. So you you took advantage of me in this ⁓ of of me in this state.
speaker-1: Well, you know, that's what Stellade gonna do is for, so I can do that. That's perfect. Right.
speaker-0: I think I had just gotten my first or second treatment. I think it was we arm wrestled day one and and I had just finished like an hour of IV ketamine and I think that's when we had our match.
speaker-1: That's a that well I mean you know, that's how I set it up, right? This is how I was working.
speaker-0: Yeah. Brilliant, brilliant.
speaker-1: It's called Better Living Through Chemistry.
speaker-0: It's been great, you know? Like the the procedure really helped me a ton immediately. It helped me immediately with sleep. Like so I I was a guy who didn't sleep well, really. And chronically and you know, there was there was a period ⁓ in my life like after I retired. I was not too bad when I was working, but like after I retired from the forces, there was times when I would not sleep at night. I wouldn't. And like a couple hours was sometimes normal. Yeah, it was having terrible effects on my life. And that I think that the day that I got the the shot, I think I slept nine hours continuous. And I had never done that in in in in in in decades. And that really continued. My sleep today is great. Like we yeah, no, I'm I I sleep I sleep wonderfully now. And it really Yeah, it's weird. It's strange. My emotional range is so much more accessible now, which is weird. Like
speaker-1: I can see if you like, but you you finish ⁓ I'll I'll get the biological stuff behind it.
speaker-0: It it's strange, you know. I am someone who has kind of prided myself over the course of my life that it's very hard to make me angry. Like I really I don't walk around angry. I don't get angry. But I'll tell you, since since I've had the block twice, I get angry sometimes. But it comes and it goes, it's gone. But but I will respond sometimes with anger, which is which is a new thing for me. Like ⁓ things things just move through me much easier now. Whatever it is. ⁓ Jody's come to say hello. We love you. So good to see you. I had I had to jump in when he talks about how he never got angry. I never got angry. Never got angry. You just all went the ⁓
speaker-1: Hello! Goodbye. Goodbye. So if you think about what happens, so then Nigdala is control of all the emotions, right? He controls emotions. So if you have it tightly controlled like this, temporarily it's okay. Long term, not so good. So hopefully with your beautiful wife, you guys have a better connection, emotional connection, which is a huge deal, right?
speaker-0: Yeah. There's a lot of different things now. If you keep talking, I'll show you hear art now. It's beautiful.
speaker-1: something. He does a beautiful Can I see what it is?
speaker-0: the latest one and when he does his art he always tells the story and it's
speaker-1: ⁓ It's just a it's a beautiful therapeutic process.
speaker-0: I got videos I could send you. But but ⁓ well here we go. She's got it here. This is the latest one. Title. The title's very funny. The title is is Buffy. Why? Well, you're unpacking something pretty big right now. It's quite complex. Like this'll take probably five minutes. Sure. Okay. Okay. So when I was little, like like before I went to school, my ⁓
speaker-1: Huh? What's the All the time the word that you want to give me.
speaker-0: My mother gave me a a rabbit, like a rabbit doll, stuffed animal. Right. Okay. And I would carry it everywhere with me. Like everywhere. For about a year probably, it went with me everywhere, everywhere. Until I went to school. And when I went to school, I my mom wouldn't let me take it to school and that was the end. And that I still had my doll, but I didn't carry it around. But there was a time when that thing was my number one everywhere I went. Your body. Yeah. So, anyways, it was like ⁓ it was after DSR. It was ⁓ Jeez, it was ⁓ probably probably a year or so, or maybe six months after DSR, Jody and I were walking around Georgia, the country, I was competing soon, and I had had a very vivid dream. I had a dream that we had an another baby, but the baby was a stuffed animal and we were taking care of it. And I and I was like, Hey Joe, do you remember I told you about the stuffed animal that I had? Anyways, I'm gonna rewind just a little bit. So I've called Jodie a nickname basically since she was like twenty, because we've known each other since high school. I've always called her Rabbit. Rabbit. Okay. And ⁓ and the thing is is she people started to realize that that was her nickname and they used to call her that and she didn't like it because that was kind of like my name for her. So so I came up with a new nickname for her. And it was it was Buppy. Okay. So after the name stuck. She started to call me Buppy. Okay? Because we're we're one thing, right? So we share a name. Okay. Right. Anyways, so then the funny realization hit me after I had that dream and I was telling her about it that her nickname was Rabbit and Buppy, and my childhood doll was a rabbit, and I called it Bobby. So I painted a picture about that.
speaker-1: Yeah. Every team.
speaker-0: We were on the streets of Georgia when he had this realization and like full on emotional release. So we're just sobbing the whole thing. But that was after D S R That was after D S R
speaker-1: Interesting. So c let me tell you a story about that. Well, it's great to hear, by the way. It's great to see how how relaxed you guys look, by the way. That's really loved. Anyway, I took care of this guy who was a Vietnam veteran. He was 18 and we got injured in Vietnam. He came to see me fifty years later. So I do the block on here. He comes up, starts crying like a baby for thirty minutes. I was like, What the hell? I broke this guy. And he says, Doc, that's the first time I've had an emotion in fifty years. He was suppressed. So three years later, we was at the fuck we were in the fundraiser in New York City. So his son came up to me and said, You thanks for giving my our father back. This is amazing. I almost never cry. It was like crazy. But the point is, if the amygdala, if you can reduce the sympathetic nervous system, amygdala starts to work normally. You feel the range of emotions that you should, right? Feeling you know, it's like you could be happy, you could be unhappy, whatever. You process it. the is designed to process it. It's not designed to be controlled. You can't control it. You can temporarily, but it's gonna come up in weirdest ways, which I think you've seen now. It's really interesting to see. Let me show you my art. Computer assisted art or human assisted a little bit. So we have a house in San Miguel, Mexico. Wow church, right? That's a big church there. So you know I always like to fuse things together. So Vincent Van Gos a Sky in the church in a cute Beautiful.
speaker-0: That's beautiful, man. That's amazing.
speaker-1: That's cool. It's a a it's a AI but with a little help from me. What?
speaker-0: Wonderful. Wonderful. I I love doing art. I don't do enough of it. Every once in a while I'll have some idea that is ⁓ that I think of and I try and express it with a paintbrush. But ⁓ yeah. Look at we're
speaker-1: Well good for us, right?
speaker-0: Yeah. Yeah. We're we're super grateful for the shot. We we've had ⁓ other people in our family get it done now. Our daughter, our son, both I think with extremely good results. Yeah. Love it.
speaker-1: So I I don't know you know that Jody but I'm gonna be ⁓ joining forces was the guy who's doing DSR in Ottawa. I heard that as soon as we're in let you know that I would love to figure out how to help a bunch of people there. Say his name? I would tell you if I remember that. It's okay.
speaker-0: That's incredible. Gosh, incredible. Okay. Well, if you're in Ottawa, we'll for sure be real happy about that and we'll look forward to
speaker-1: Well I should know absolutely. So if you don't mind, I'll just gonna keep working through the interview. Is that okay? Please. Thank you, my friend. Not for you, it's for your bride, of course. Anyway, so here is you know, as I was watching Joe Rogan and your discussion there, I didn't realize you're over fifty. So the question I had for you is I mean, first of all, how many people are performing at your level on a world stage in their fifties in any sport? Is that common or is it pretty much unheard of?
speaker-0: Yeah, I don't think it's common. No.
speaker-1: Yeah. So the question is, how do you do it? I mean, first of all, you may have the will, but the body can't do it. You clearly have the will and the body together. Yeah. How do you think you've done it? There's there's
speaker-0: lot of pieces that go into the answer there. There's a lot. I think that the most important piece is probably just the desire. Right. Do you that's probably the most important piece. If if the will is there, if the desire is there, well then you can somehow find a way to make it work. But I think by the time most people get to be my age, they they've they've lost their desire or they've been satiated or they've somewhere along the way
speaker-1: I mean now yeah.
speaker-0: They it's become too murky for them or it's become too gray. But for me, I feel like I have always kind of loved to do this stuff and somehow I've found a way through, you know, just continuing to learn. I've found a way to increase my performance, you know, and really Yeah, and a lot of treatments along the way. A lot.
speaker-1: Well, everybody has yeah. Well let me let me ask you this question. So when you started doing it when you were eighteen, right? Didn't you start competing?
speaker-0: I started RMS when I was little. Like I started with my grandmother.
speaker-1: Yeah. So who was your bread, butter, you go?
speaker-0: I've never beat I never beat my grandmother. I famously she's she's the best. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, I I never beat her, but I started competitively at eighteen.
speaker-1: I remember that. So what do you think has changed like your fifty year old you as opposed to twenty year old you? And what has changed technique, recovery, any other things? Because longevity is something I'm extremely interested in. I'll tell you my perspective. Like I want to operate into my nineties because I have the drive. So I'm doing everything I can to do that. But what is changed between the twenty year old you and fifty year old you?
speaker-0: There's so many changes, there's so many. The way I train is different. My base philosophy is different. The way I live my life is different. I I would be I I would be completely irresponsible if I didn't mention medication and therapies. You know, these are all pieces that let you continue to perform as an aging athlete. But you know, from my vantage point where I'm at now, the whole age of fifty one is I still think I've got a lot in the tank, to be quite honest with you. Like and I'm not talking about holding on. I'm talking about I think I can still break new ground.
speaker-1: Do you know it? And that's why you're gonna succeed. Because you believe that and you're gonna make it you can make it happen. ⁓ what watching you watching you compete and watching your you know, the performance before and after, to me is just you you just have a fascinating view of the work and the self confidence, not arrogance, which sometimes couldn't be a problem, but the the self confidence you enzude. It's so cool to see it. Not not ever near that. So let me ask you another question. So the difference between
speaker-0: Big
speaker-1: Commitment and obsession with the sport. How would you differentiate the two and how do you balance the two?
speaker-0: ⁓ I think that you have to find a certain peace in what you do. You know, I think that there's, you know, it's it's it's great to love something. Like whatever. I love arm wrestling. You love treating people, you know, to to let them live better. and and that's that's wonderful. But there's a difference. I'll use arm wrestling as an example because obviously I'm familiar with it, but I'm sure it applies to everybody. Who has an obsession, there's parts where it requires just tons of time and tons of monotony. Like I have to do so much work, repetitive work that can be viewed as boring. But if you can find a way to come to peace with ⁓ with with the all actions that bring you closer to your goal, I think that that's so important mentally to be able to do. So many people love something but but don't love all the pieces, you know.
speaker-1: I think they like the compartment, right? But yeah, no, I agree. Actually, in in that sense, I think I mean obviously I'm not an athlete like you. But like for example, all the boring stuff, reading journals. And that's why I was able to find all the stuff. Like I hate exercise. I have been a hug all my life, up until eight years ago. And then once I have a very clear goal to be able to operate my 90s, I have a dangling bar every place I live. I have exercise equipment every place I go. I have a balancing ball. Just because you gotta do this if you wanna if you have the goal and the people have a goal, you know, the studies show you can live ten extra years. I mean it's so I and I think in that sense it's very similar. You're right. So that is a goal that I think goal oriented people do better anyway. Because we need a very important
speaker-0: Genial. Very important to to love the goal so much, to love the outcome of and the the goal that you are willing to do the things that you don't necessarily love that are encompassed within the goal. Like some people love only pieces of it, you know? But if you wanna really, really be the best, you have to do all the little things that you don't necessarily love and you have to find a way to make peace with them and and find contentment in them and to be able to develop yourself in those places that you maybe don't naturally ⁓ like to spend your energy on.
speaker-1: Need to embrace. Let me get let me get my other book I'm working on if you don't mind for our next section in digital toxicity. What
speaker-0: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was a fun Yeah. Yeah, like Dennis was the first one afterwards, right? Dennis was my first match. And people didn't even really said said I looked totally different. Yeah.
speaker-1: Alrighty, my friend.
speaker-0: Hey before we go further, I wanted to do a little recap on ⁓ on the first shot that I had done. Sure. And and performance. Okay. So I think I was a little bit worried that it was gonna mess with my ability to like really get crazy and fight, you know? Anyway, so my first like really, really big test after the DSR And ketamine was a guy called Dennis Saplankov, like a long time champion. Like it was a really big difficult match for me. And in that match, it happened on November the eleventh, by the way, which is our Remembrance Day. So it was a really big deal for me. And a lot of people who follow me really close, they said that I looked like unrecognizable. Like the way I fought, the way I did the match was like completely foreign. Just the level of control, the level of you know ⁓
speaker-1: Better.
speaker-0: Way better. Huh. Way better. I I was I was probably probably at that point probably one of my best performances ever. And there was a a level of like relaxation and precision to all my actions that I have to attribute to the the therapy because it was it was new and people hadn't seen it before. Different. And since then so much has changed. Like, you know, with all the therapies and you know, especially especially the reset. You know, so many things have changed. I did I did thirteen matches in a year, ⁓ the following year.
speaker-1: Hello everyone. Welcome to Brain Hope Reality. We have an unbelievable guest today. Eurocrusher. A lovely term. Thank you very much for coming back. You are my episode number
speaker-0: Wow, is that right? What I'm so happy to be back, man. We love you. We love you.
speaker-1: Love you buddy. You you and your bride has always been a joy for me to think about. And it's been interesting to s I've been watching you kind of peripherally, how you've been doing, and it's ⁓ you're an amazing guy. What could I tell you? So what I want to talk about, three things today if that's okay. One, I'd love to see what's new in the last two years, which I'm sure there's I am shocked that you were over fifteen and you're still performing at this craziest level of performance. You just did Joe Rogan. I love being sloppy seconds, just so you know.
speaker-0: That's great. That's great. Who does it? Who doesn't? I'm all warmed up. I'm all warmed up.
speaker-1: Yeah, I'll come back for the real house. Right there. We we're gonna put the picture in of you and I arm wrestling and you cry from be attacking you. Yeah. It got me it was staged.
speaker-0: Exactly, exactly. Yeah. ⁓ You you you got me at a very enlightened state. I was very at peace with everything. So you you took advantage of me in this ⁓ of of me in this state.
speaker-1: Well, you know, that's what Stellade gonna do is for, so I can do that. That's perfect. Right.
speaker-0: I think I had just gotten my first or second treatment. I think it was we arm wrestled day one and and I had just finished like an hour of IV ketamine and I think that's when we had our match.
speaker-1: That's a that well I mean you know, that's how I set it up, right? This is how I was working.
speaker-0: Yeah. Brilliant, brilliant.
speaker-1: It's called Better Living Through Chemistry.
speaker-0: It's been great, you know? Like the the procedure really helped me a ton immediately. It helped me immediately with sleep. Like so I I was a guy who didn't sleep well, really. And chronically and you know, there was there was a period ⁓ in my life like after I retired. I was not too bad when I was working, but like after I retired from the forces, there was times when I would not sleep at night. I wouldn't. And like a couple hours was sometimes normal. Yeah, it was having terrible effects on my life. And that I think that the day that I got the the shot, I think I slept nine hours continuous. And I had never done that in in in in in in decades. And that really continued. My sleep today is great. Like we yeah, no, I'm I I sleep I sleep wonderfully now. And it really Yeah, it's weird. It's strange. My emotional range is so much more accessible now, which is weird. Like
speaker-1: I can see if you like, but you you finish ⁓ I'll I'll get the biological stuff behind it.
speaker-0: It it's strange, you know. I am someone who has kind of prided myself over the course of my life that it's very hard to make me angry. Like I really I don't walk around angry. I don't get angry. But I'll tell you, since since I've had the block twice, I get angry sometimes. But it comes and it goes, it's gone. But but I will respond sometimes with anger, which is which is a new thing for me. Like ⁓ things things just move through me much easier now. Whatever it is. ⁓ Jody's come to say hello. We love you. So good to see you. I had I had to jump in when he talks about how he never got angry. I never got angry. Never got angry. You just all went the ⁓
speaker-1: Hello! Goodbye. Goodbye. So if you think about what happens, so then Nigdala is control of all the emotions, right? He controls emotions. So if you have it tightly controlled like this, temporarily it's okay. Long term, not so good. So hopefully with your beautiful wife, you guys have a better connection, emotional connection, which is a huge deal, right?
speaker-0: Yeah. There's a lot of different things now. If you keep talking, I'll show you hear art now. It's beautiful.
speaker-1: something. He does a beautiful Can I see what it is?
speaker-0: the latest one and when he does his art he always tells the story and it's
speaker-1: ⁓ It's just a it's a beautiful therapeutic process.
speaker-0: I got videos I could send you. But but ⁓ well here we go. She's got it here. This is the latest one. Title. The title's very funny. The title is is Buffy. Why? Well, you're unpacking something pretty big right now. It's quite complex. Like this'll take probably five minutes. Sure. Okay. Okay. So when I was little, like like before I went to school, my ⁓
speaker-1: Huh? What's the All the time the word that you want to give me.
speaker-0: My mother gave me a a rabbit, like a rabbit doll, stuffed animal. Right. Okay. And I would carry it everywhere with me. Like everywhere. For about a year probably, it went with me everywhere, everywhere. Until I went to school. And when I went to school, I my mom wouldn't let me take it to school and that was the end. And that I still had my doll, but I didn't carry it around. But there was a time when that thing was my number one everywhere I went. Your body. Yeah. So, anyways, it was like ⁓ it was after DSR. It was ⁓ Jeez, it was ⁓ probably probably a year or so, or maybe six months after DSR, Jody and I were walking around Georgia, the country, I was competing soon, and I had had a very vivid dream. I had a dream that we had an another baby, but the baby was a stuffed animal and we were taking care of it. And I and I was like, Hey Joe, do you remember I told you about the stuffed animal that I had? Anyways, I'm gonna rewind just a little bit. So I've called Jodie a nickname basically since she was like twenty, because we've known each other since high school. I've always called her Rabbit. Rabbit. Okay. And ⁓ and the thing is is she people started to realize that that was her nickname and they used to call her that and she didn't like it because that was kind of like my name for her. So so I came up with a new nickname for her. And it was it was Buppy. Okay. So after the name stuck. She started to call me Buppy. Okay? Because we're we're one thing, right? So we share a name. Okay. Right. Anyways, so then the funny realization hit me after I had that dream and I was telling her about it that her nickname was Rabbit and Buppy, and my childhood doll was a rabbit, and I called it Bobby. So I painted a picture about that.
speaker-1: Yeah. Every team.
speaker-0: We were on the streets of Georgia when he had this realization and like full on emotional release. So we're just sobbing the whole thing. But that was after D S R That was after D S R
speaker-1: Interesting. So c let me tell you a story about that. Well, it's great to hear, by the way. It's great to see how how relaxed you guys look, by the way. That's really loved. Anyway, I took care of this guy who was a Vietnam veteran. He was 18 and we got injured in Vietnam. He came to see me fifty years later. So I do the block on here. He comes up, starts crying like a baby for thirty minutes. I was like, What the hell? I broke this guy. And he says, Doc, that's the first time I've had an emotion in fifty years. He was suppressed. So three years later, we was at the fuck we were in the fundraiser in New York City. So his son came up to me and said, You thanks for giving my our father back. This is amazing. I almost never cry. It was like crazy. But the point is, if the amygdala, if you can reduce the sympathetic nervous system, amygdala starts to work normally. You feel the range of emotions that you should, right? Feeling you know, it's like you could be happy, you could be unhappy, whatever. You process it. the is designed to process it. It's not designed to be controlled. You can't control it. You can temporarily, but it's gonna come up in weirdest ways, which I think you've seen now. It's really interesting to see. Let me show you my art. Computer assisted art or human assisted a little bit. So we have a house in San Miguel, Mexico. Wow church, right? That's a big church there. So you know I always like to fuse things together. So Vincent Van Gos a Sky in the church in a cute Beautiful.
speaker-0: That's beautiful, man. That's amazing.
speaker-1: That's cool. It's a a it's a AI but with a little help from me. What?
speaker-0: Wonderful. Wonderful. I I love doing art. I don't do enough of it. Every once in a while I'll have some idea that is ⁓ that I think of and I try and express it with a paintbrush. But ⁓ yeah. Look at we're
speaker-1: Well good for us, right?
speaker-0: Yeah. Yeah. We're we're super grateful for the shot. We we've had ⁓ other people in our family get it done now. Our daughter, our son, both I think with extremely good results. Yeah. Love it.
speaker-1: So I I don't know you know that Jody but I'm gonna be ⁓ joining forces was the guy who's doing DSR in Ottawa. I heard that as soon as we're in let you know that I would love to figure out how to help a bunch of people there. Say his name? I would tell you if I remember that. It's okay.
speaker-0: That's incredible. Gosh, incredible. Okay. Well, if you're in Ottawa, we'll for sure be real happy about that and we'll look forward to
speaker-1: Well I should know absolutely. So if you don't mind, I'll just gonna keep working through the interview. Is that okay? Please. Thank you, my friend. Not for you, it's for your bride, of course. Anyway, so here is you know, as I was watching Joe Rogan and your discussion there, I didn't realize you're over fifty. So the question I had for you is I mean, first of all, how many people are performing at your level on a world stage in their fifties in any sport? Is that common or is it pretty much unheard of?
speaker-0: Yeah, I don't think it's common. No.
speaker-1: Yeah. So the question is, how do you do it? I mean, first of all, you may have the will, but the body can't do it. You clearly have the will and the body together. Yeah. How do you think you've done it? There's there's
speaker-0: lot of pieces that go into the answer there. There's a lot. I think that the most important piece is probably just the desire. Right. Do you that's probably the most important piece. If if the will is there, if the desire is there, well then you can somehow find a way to make it work. But I think by the time most people get to be my age, they they've they've lost their desire or they've been satiated or they've somewhere along the way
speaker-1: I mean now yeah.
speaker-0: They it's become too murky for them or it's become too gray. But for me, I feel like I have always kind of loved to do this stuff and somehow I've found a way through, you know, just continuing to learn. I've found a way to increase my performance, you know, and really Yeah, and a lot of treatments along the way. A lot.
speaker-1: Well, everybody has yeah. Well let me let me ask you this question. So when you started doing it when you were eighteen, right? Didn't you start competing?
speaker-0: I started RMS when I was little. Like I started with my grandmother.
speaker-1: Yeah. So who was your bread, butter, you go?
speaker-0: I've never beat I never beat my grandmother. I famously she's she's the best. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, I I never beat her, but I started competitively at eighteen.
speaker-1: I remember that. So what do you think has changed like your fifty year old you as opposed to twenty year old you? And what has changed technique, recovery, any other things? Because longevity is something I'm extremely interested in. I'll tell you my perspective. Like I want to operate into my nineties because I have the drive. So I'm doing everything I can to do that. But what is changed between the twenty year old you and fifty year old you?
speaker-0: There's so many changes, there's so many. The way I train is different. My base philosophy is different. The way I live my life is different. I I would be I I would be completely irresponsible if I didn't mention medication and therapies. You know, these are all pieces that let you continue to perform as an aging athlete. But you know, from my vantage point where I'm at now, the whole age of fifty one is I still think I've got a lot in the tank, to be quite honest with you. Like and I'm not talking about holding on. I'm talking about I think I can still break new ground.
speaker-1: Do you know it? And that's why you're gonna succeed. Because you believe that and you're gonna make it you can make it happen. ⁓ what watching you watching you compete and watching your you know, the performance before and after, to me is just you you just have a fascinating view of the work and the self confidence, not arrogance, which sometimes couldn't be a problem, but the the self confidence you enzude. It's so cool to see it. Not not ever near that. So let me ask you another question. So the difference between
speaker-0: Big
speaker-1: Commitment and obsession with the sport. How would you differentiate the two and how do you balance the two?
speaker-0: ⁓ I think that you have to find a certain peace in what you do. You know, I think that there's, you know, it's it's it's great to love something. Like whatever. I love arm wrestling. You love treating people, you know, to to let them live better. and and that's that's wonderful. But there's a difference. I'll use arm wrestling as an example because obviously I'm familiar with it, but I'm sure it applies to everybody. Who has an obsession, there's parts where it requires just tons of time and tons of monotony. Like I have to do so much work, repetitive work that can be viewed as boring. But if you can find a way to come to peace with ⁓ with with the all actions that bring you closer to your goal, I think that that's so important mentally to be able to do. So many people love something but but don't love all the pieces, you know.
speaker-1: I think they like the compartment, right? But yeah, no, I agree. Actually, in in that sense, I think I mean obviously I'm not an athlete like you. But like for example, all the boring stuff, reading journals. And that's why I was able to find all the stuff. Like I hate exercise. I have been a hug all my life, up until eight years ago. And then once I have a very clear goal to be able to operate my 90s, I have a dangling bar every place I live. I have exercise equipment every place I go. I have a balancing ball. Just because you gotta do this if you wanna if you have the goal and the people have a goal, you know, the studies show you can live ten extra years. I mean it's so I and I think in that sense it's very similar. You're right. So that is a goal that I think goal oriented people do better anyway. Because we need a very important
speaker-0: Genial. Very important to to love the goal so much, to love the outcome of and the the goal that you are willing to do the things that you don't necessarily love that are encompassed within the goal. Like some people love only pieces of it, you know? But if you wanna really, really be the best, you have to do all the little things that you don't necessarily love and you have to find a way to make peace with them and and find contentment in them and to be able to develop yourself in those places that you maybe don't naturally ⁓ like to spend your energy on.
speaker-1: Need to embrace. Let me get let me get my other book I'm working on if you don't mind for our next section in digital toxicity. What
speaker-0: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was a fun Yeah. Yeah, like Dennis was the first one afterwards, right? Dennis was my first match. And people didn't even really said said I looked totally different. Yeah.
speaker-1: Alrighty, my friend.
speaker-0: Hey before we go further, I wanted to do a little recap on ⁓ on the first shot that I had done. Sure. And and performance. Okay. So I think I was a little bit worried that it was gonna mess with my ability to like really get crazy and fight, you know? Anyway, so my first like really, really big test after the DSR And ketamine was a guy called Dennis Saplankov, like a long time champion. Like it was a really big difficult match for me. And in that match, it happened on November the eleventh, by the way, which is our Remembrance Day. So it was a really big deal for me. And a lot of people who follow me really close, they said that I looked like unrecognizable. Like the way I fought, the way I did the match was like completely foreign. Just the level of control, the level of you know ⁓
speaker-1: Better.
speaker-0: Way better. Huh. Way better. I I was I was probably probably at that point probably one of my best performances ever. And there was a a level of like relaxation and precision to all my actions that I have to attribute to the the therapy because it was it was new and people hadn't seen it before. Different. And since then so much has changed. Like, you know, with all the therapies and you know, especially especially the reset. You know, so many things have changed. I did I did thirteen matches in a year, ⁓ the following year.
