Dave Asprey describes treating his body like a system to optimize, saying you cannot hack what you can't track. He weighed 300 pounds despite heavy gym use before learning to measure and iterate his way to change, and frames emotional reactivity as dangerous, like walking around with a loaded gun.
Like, who was Dave Asprey before the hacks?
I had Asperger's syndrome when I was younger. I learned to read when I was 18 months old. So when everyone else was figuring out, you know, how do you socialize, how do you crawl properly? I was just soaking up info. Now you can hack it because you can track it. You cannot hack what you can't track. And I have weighed 300 pounds. I went to the gym 90 minutes a day, six days a week. Okay, I'm a computer hacker. If I can hack the Internet, why can't I hack my own body? And I'm just going to do things that work. I'm going to measure it, and if it doesn't work, I'm going to quit doing it.
If something can rattle you, it's like you're walking around with.
A loaded gun. If something triggered you, it means you're walking around with a loaded gun. That's what the word means. So, I mean, in Texas, that's legal, but in a lot of the world, you probably don't want to be doing that.
Energetic peace.
You are abundantly powerful and full of energy, and you choose to be peaceful because no one can change your state except for you. And another way of putting this is it's better to be a warrior in a gardener, or it's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. So you want to be energetically peaceful.
