Wim Hof sits in an ice bath for 63 minutes on his 63rd birthday. His son Noory plays live music until he trips a cable and resets the timer. Hof says the first 20 minutes are the hardest, where the mind plays tricks, but you can learn to push past fear with training.
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Happy birthday to me. Must be a cool birthday because I'm gonna go and honor my years. 63 minutes? 63 years? Happy birthday! It's a cool party. 63 minutes, 63 years. I'm celebrating life. It's here, being in the moment to the fullest. Yeah, get it all in. Nune, beautiful boy. Look at that, the future. It's meeting the present. Noony, watch out! You're gonna drag the— watch out, watch out! Oh, Delgar! We have fun! Wow, live music! Beautiful. Thank you, Noony. Mommy! Oh, he's amazing. He's a director. Happy birthday to you, puppy! No, let's start over. 11:40, 11:50. Can you explain what happened? So yeah, yeah, yeah, the live music is being, uh, done by, uh, my little son, beautiful. And then he, uh, tripped over the, uh, cable, and then he caught electricity, so the timer was gone. It was already like 12 minutes. So from 12 minutes plus what you see is the time we got to fill until we got 63 minutes. So how many minutes does that timer have to go? Like 50. Exactly. Exactly 50. Don't trip it again, otherwise it goes down again. Back in the flow we go. The dog also. I feel okay. Life finds its way. Rizzy like a monkey, let's be funky, happy looking, life finds its way. Apparently I'm melting the ice. Good. 2 minutes to go. All in control, my beautiful boy. Watch out, Noony. Watch out for the wire. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Done. 63 minutes. Maybe I stay longer. No, next year. Cool, done. Going to have a nice, nice sauna. Ciao, guys. Happy birthday. Oh, nice! Let's do some happy birthday, happy flexible birthday. Yes! Hey guys, I did 63 minutes ice bath. Something you should not do without training. I only want to show 63 minutes, 63 years. That's the way I exercise or celebrate my birthday. Before going into— don't tell nobody, but I was also a little bit of Am I gonna make it? Because last year I did it also. I did 62 minutes and now 63. And oh, it's gonna work out just like that. That is the trickery of your mind. That doesn't guarantee the success. Always let a little bit of fear come in and ignite the deepest of yourself. And then it's gonna be all right because then you go past your thinking. And thinking, it's not. It's being. The first 20 minutes is when you are getting, "Am I ready? Am I not?" And a lot of people around me, my little kid playing around, tripping over the cable. So we had to start all over again with the timer and things, you know. And he is playing, asking for the attention while I need my attention. No, man, I need to be here. I show you, papi. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I see. It's flashy. Just flashy. Yes, just flashy. You don't know if you're going to make it or you don't know if you're going to have hard times, yes or no. And then with the stimuli of so many people, you are not really able to tune in deeply to understand what is going to be the trajectory of the 63 minutes. It's a real challenge, but it's amazing. Just did it. Happy birthday, you.
