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Jordan B. Peterson Explains How to Conquer Fear | The Wim Hof Podcast

25 Jun 2021 · 1 min

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Jordan B. Peterson and Wim Hof discuss how voluntary exposure to stressors rewires your brain differently than accidental exposure to the same threat. Deliberately practicing mastery in uncomfortable situations builds real courage and trains your will through neurology, not just willpower.

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Really what you're doing when you're training someone to not be afraid is that you're having them practice mastery in the face of threat. And what they learn is the mastery, and then they become more globally confident. It doesn't just cure their elevator phobia. Exactly. It makes them more courageous. Okay, so you're doing this with intent and used a metaphor. You said you're the captain of your ship. So your advice is that I should focus on the cold and but also focus on my my ability to withstand it, to practice the mastery. Yes.
Our will is neurology. And it is connected with the neurology of our body. And also the rest of our brain. And we—
Well, there is a large literature showing that if you measure brain activity when someone is accidentally exposed to a stressor compared to when they expose themselves voluntarily, the pattern of neurological activation is profoundly different. Even though the stressor, you know, hypothetically, the objective stressor is the same.