The top of the Mountain

Content I found interesting:

Content I found interesting:

This TEDx with Dave Asprey about biohacking. He explains how to improve your health right now and extend your lifespan. He does not go deep into it on this talk, but his book (‘Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever’) explains everything in detail. If you want to live a better life for longer, start by reading this book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk5sT8zS4mI

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This episode of ‘This American life’ podcast. The caption of the podcast is ‘Three people, and one animal, who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they don’t’. The fist story is about a father that did everything so his daughter could have a better future than him, it almost brought me to tears.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/765/off-course

Thoughts and realizations:

In the book I mentioned above, I read something that changed the way I understand sleep and that will hopefully change my sensibility towards my body wellbeing.

If you slept a good amount of time and you wake up feeling tired, you know you did something wrong the day before. You ate some inflammatory food (everyone has different triggers), you were stressed all day, or you did a really intense workout.

If you wake up tired, your body didn’t have enough time to recover from whatever you did the day before.

This will help me live a healthier life because I will start to notice the things that make me feel foggy and tired, like foods I can’t digest efficiently or too intense workouts.

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When we speak about self-development and self-fulfillment, we all recall our past experience as a roller coaster. There are times when we feel like we could accomplish anything in the world and other times when everything seems to fall apart.

And these changes are so inconsistent that sometimes we feel them both on the same day.

But part from the ups and downs, we usually see a trend that tends upward.

This week I thought a lot about the analogy a friend of mine told me years ago, it used to pop into my head from time to time, but this week it was really relevant for a conversation I had.

When you reach the top of a mountain, you can look around, and you can see all the progress behind you. You feel great. Then, you see a gigger mountain, with a higher peck. But fist, to get there, you need to climb down the mountain you are currently in.

Between the mountains, once you reach the bottom of the valley, you forget how you felt at the top of the previous mountain, you lose the perspective you had. So, you will struggle a lot to find motivation to do the harder climb ahead of you.

The mountain in front will always be a bit bigger and a bit more challenging than what you think you are capable of climbing. From the valley, it can be scarry to look to the peak, some people stop down there because they are afraid of the climb. They think they can´t make it, so they never try it. So, always push yourself to the limit and go for it, even if it seems impossible.

You will always climb higher mountains and each one will make you stronger.

You will still get to the bottom of the valley from time to time, but don’t worry, the next mountain will bring you higher.

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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

— Louis L'Amour —