Wim Hof wants to be remembered for the Wim Hof Method, the cold exposure and breathing techniques he calls exponential powers of life. He's pursued all his ambitions, values a youthful mind over a youthful body, and now focuses on sharing health and happiness rather than chasing personal records.
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Hi guys, another Ask Wim. Wim, that's me, asking you to ask Wim. What do I want to be remembered for? I think for the method that the people going into the cold. I just had a cold shower and it was amazing. When you feel a thing like that, it's just gets up on you, attacks you like something, like a monster. An amazing monster. So whenever somebody thinks, oh, Wim Hof this and that, you take the damn cold shower, you feel what I'm talking about, and then you feel, whoa, that Wim Hof is a great guy. So I think the cold, and having it brought into the mainstream. And yes, of course, the breathing as well. They will remember me because the breathing and the cold are really so much to the surface now that they are the exponential powers of life itself. How can I not be remembered? If I would wake up tomorrow with something I still want, Then that would be— I don't know. I think I got it all. No, there is no real wish of what I would want. Of course, I would like maybe, you know, to get rid a little bit of this collateral fat. But that is in the possibilities of mine as well. So I don't need to want that. Like something miraculously, like a wish, unfulfilled wish. I do not have unfulfilled wishes. 3 things that me and my partner have in common. That is to make stupid jokes, to be very observant, and trying to cut each other out because you know each other. So it's a sort of a spiritual competition, but it's good. My partner is mirroring me and I like it. What roles do affection and love play in my life? They don't play. They are a serious part of my life. And I like my family. I like love. To share with everybody. It's just amazing. The spiritual connection with people makes me really grow and feel the excitement of being and to explain more and to go deeper and to go for more and to challenge together, to share love and affection. Yes, I think that's the superdrive of every person in the world. At least mine. Gold mine. If I would be coming to 100 years old, would I prefer a mind of a 30-year-old or a body of a 30-year-old? If I make a direct choice, it is the mind. Because the mind grows neurologically until you die. You expand, keep on expanding consciousness. Perception, neurology. That's meat inside. It's growing. And the antenna, they grow more, more, more, more. You see more, more, more, more. So I choose the mind. Is there anything I have dreamed of for a long time and why didn't I do it? Hmm, no. There's nothing I dreamt of that I haven't done. I did it all. At a certain moment I was thinking, yeah, what do I do? What kind of challenge do I have to do now? Go backward in a tanga, slip up Mount Everest, and then do crazy stuff every 1 kilometer height difference. It's ridiculous. And I asked myself in all those challenges when I did them, at a certain moment I was like, "Hey, this is ridiculous now." And it showed itself because later the signs came in. And what I want to bring is not self-indulgent records. What I want to bring is your health, your happiness, and your strength. That's what I want.
