Dave Asprey - Game Changers

COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT DEDICATION INTRODUCTION PART I: SMARTER 1 FOCUSING ON YOUR WEAKNESSES MAKES YOU WEAKER 2 GET INTO THE HABIT OF GETTING SMARTER 3 GET OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD SO YOU CAN SEE INSIDE IT 4 DISRUPT FEAR 5 EVEN BATMAN HAS A BAT CAVE PART II: FASTER 6 SEX IS AN ALTERED STATE 7 FIND YOUR NIGHTTIME SPIRIT ANIMAL 8 THROW A ROCK AT THE RABBIT, DON’T CHASE IT 9 YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN 10 THE FUTURE OF HACKING YOURSELF IS NOW PART III: HAPPIER 11 BEING RICH WON’T MAKE YOU HAPPY, BUT BEING HAPPY MIGHT MAKE YOU RICH 12 YOUR COMMUNITY IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT 13 RESET YOUR PROGRAMMING 14 GET DIRTY IN THE SUN 15 USE GRATITUDE TO REWIRE YOUR BRAIN AFTERWORD NOTES LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR OTHER BOOKS BY ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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First published in the US by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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© Dave Asprey 2018

Cover layout design Sarahmay Wilkinson © HarperCollins Publishers 2018

Cover illustration © Curly Pat/Shutterstock

A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

Dave Asprey asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Ebook Edition © December 2018 ISBN: 9780008318642

Version 2018-12-12

DEDICATION DEDICATION INTRODUCTION PART I: SMARTER 1 FOCUSING ON YOUR WEAKNESSES MAKES YOU WEAKER 2 GET INTO THE HABIT OF GETTING SMARTER 3 GET OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD SO YOU CAN SEE INSIDE IT 4 DISRUPT FEAR 5 EVEN BATMAN HAS A BAT CAVE PART II: FASTER 6 SEX IS AN ALTERED STATE 7 FIND YOUR NIGHTTIME SPIRIT ANIMAL 8 THROW A ROCK AT THE RABBIT, DON’T CHASE IT 9 YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN 10 THE FUTURE OF HACKING YOURSELF IS NOW PART III: HAPPIER 11 BEING RICH WON’T MAKE YOU HAPPY, BUT BEING HAPPY MIGHT MAKE YOU RICH 12 YOUR COMMUNITY IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT 13 RESET YOUR PROGRAMMING 14 GET DIRTY IN THE SUN 15 USE GRATITUDE TO REWIRE YOUR BRAIN AFTERWORD NOTES LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR OTHER BOOKS BY ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

To Bill Harris, one of the most charitable and game-changing brain hackers I’vebeen honored to call a friend, who passed away during the writing of this book.

CONTENTS

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TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT DEDICATION INTRODUCTION PART I: SMARTER 1 FOCUSING ON YOUR WEAKNESSES MAKES YOU WEAKER 2 GET INTO THE HABIT OF GETTING SMARTER 3 GET OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD SO YOU CAN SEE INSIDE IT 4 DISRUPT FEAR 5 EVEN BATMAN HAS A BAT CAVE PART II: FASTER 6 SEX IS AN ALTERED STATE 7 FIND YOUR NIGHTTIME SPIRIT ANIMAL 8 THROW A ROCK AT THE RABBIT, DON’T CHASE IT 9 YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN 10 THE FUTURE OF HACKING YOURSELF IS NOW PART III: HAPPIER 11 BEING RICH WON’T MAKE YOU HAPPY, BUT BEING HAPPY MIGHT MAKE YOU RICH 12 YOUR COMMUNITY IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT 13 RESET YOUR PROGRAMMING 14 GET DIRTY IN THE SUN 15 USE GRATITUDE TO REWIRE YOUR BRAIN AFTERWORD NOTES LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR OTHER BOOKS BY ABOUT THE PUBLISHER Thorsons An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in the US by Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018 This UK edition published 2018 FIRST EDITION © Dave Asprey 2018 Cover layout design Sarahmay Wilkinson © HarperCollins Publishers 2018 Cover illustration © Curly Pat/Shutterstock A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Dave Asprey asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Find out about HarperCollins and the environment at www.harpercollins.co.uk/green Source ISBN: 9780008318635 Ebook Edition © December 2018 ISBN: 9780008318642 Version 2018-12-12

DEDICATION DEDICATION DEDICATION INTRODUCTION PART I: SMARTER 1 FOCUSING ON YOUR WEAKNESSES MAKES YOU WEAKER 2 GET INTO THE HABIT OF GETTING SMARTER 3 GET OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD SO YOU CAN SEE INSIDE IT 4 DISRUPT FEAR 5 EVEN BATMAN HAS A BAT CAVE PART II: FASTER 6 SEX IS AN ALTERED STATE 7 FIND YOUR NIGHTTIME SPIRIT ANIMAL 8 THROW A ROCK AT THE RABBIT, DON’T CHASE IT 9 YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN 10 THE FUTURE OF HACKING YOURSELF IS NOW PART III: HAPPIER 11 BEING RICH WON’T MAKE YOU HAPPY, BUT BEING HAPPY MIGHT MAKE YOU RICH 12 YOUR COMMUNITY IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT 13 RESET YOUR PROGRAMMING 14 GET DIRTY IN THE SUN 15 USE GRATITUDE TO REWIRE YOUR BRAIN AFTERWORD NOTES LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR OTHER BOOKS BY ABOUT THE PUBLISHER To Bill Harris, one of the most charitable and game-changing brain hackers I’vebeen honored to call a friend, who passed away during the writing of this book.

INTRODUCTION

PART I: SMARTER

1 FOCUSING ON YOUR WEAKNESSES MAKES YOU WEAKER

2 GET INTO THE HABIT OF GETTING SMARTER

3 GET OUTSIDE YOUR HEAD SO YOU CAN SEE INSIDE IT

4 DISRUPT FEAR

5 EVEN BATMAN HAS A BAT CAVE

PART II: FASTER

6 SEX IS AN ALTERED STATE

7 FIND YOUR NIGHTTIME SPIRIT ANIMAL

8 THROW A ROCK AT THE RABBIT, DON’T CHASE IT

9 YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN

10 THE FUTURE OF HACKING YOURSELF IS NOW

PART III: HAPPIER

11 BEING RICH WON’T MAKE YOU HAPPY, BUT BEING HAPPY MIGHT MAKE YOU RICH

12 YOUR COMMUNITY IS YOUR ENVIRONMENT

13 RESET YOUR PROGRAMMING

14 GET DIRTY IN THE SUN

15 USE GRATITUDE TO REWIRE YOUR BRAIN

AFTERWORD

NOTES

LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

OTHER BOOKS BY

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

INTRODUCTION

What would happen if you sat down, one on one, with 450 successful, unusually impactful people and asked each of them their secrets to performing better as a human being based on their own life experience—and then took the time to statistically analyze their replies and organize what you’d learned?

For one thing, you would be able to use the resulting data to create a word map like the one below. The bigger the word, the more times the experts said it mattered most.

For the past five years, I’ve been having those conversations with people who are unusually noteworthy in their fields, and this book is based on those interviews and that data.