Learn II Perform with Braeden Ostepchuk

A growth mindset is to success what compound interest is to Warren Buffet. The simplicity and power of this tool has the potential to transform your life. Studies on neuroscience and history’s most successful individuals have demonstrated the ability for a growth mindset to help people cultivate massive success.

In this episode, you’ll learn about what it means to have a growth mindset, how to use neuroplasticity and the dopaminergic reward system to your advantage, and an amazingly simple tool to transform your life.

Topics:
[1:59] Neuroplasticity: The restructuring of the brain’s structure and function by thinking
[4:33] Dopamine’s role in the Growth Mindset
[5:42] Dopamine is not about the happiness of the reward
[7:52] Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade
[10:33] Process over results: Tracking incremental growth
[12:50] The Probability Assessment

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Thank you all for joining me on this journey to lifelong health, happiness, and higher performance. And remember, always be grateful, love yourself, and serve others.

Originally founded by Zeno in Cyprus around 300 BC, Stoicism is rooted in the idea that a human’s ultimate life duty is to live in accordance with nature, noted as living only with pure necessities and taking a rational approach to life. In essence, this disciplined, minimalistic approach to life is the polar opposite to the hedonistic culture that is extremely prevalent in our modern society.

In this episode, you’ll learn about stoicism in historic and modern contexts, popular texts and their relevance today, and discover a how to use stoicism to change your perception of life. I’ll also share with you the Stoic text that completely changed my life.

Topics:
[1:58] What is stoicism?
[3:52] Lessons from Epictetus
[6:25] Lessons from Ryan Holiday
[8:51] The book that changed my life
[10:42] “Fame after death is no better than oblivion”
[12:17] How to incorporate stoicism into your life

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Thank you all for joining me on this journey to lifelong health, happiness, and higher performance. And remember, always be grateful, love yourself, and serve others. 

COVID-19. Everyone knows about it, but still, no one can seem to agree about what it is, how it works, and what you should do. Or maybe some people can, but I have found the contradictory information and news stories to be overwhelming. Attempting to objectively understand COVID-19, data from the CDC will be dissected and literature on the relationships between the coronaviruses, mortality causes, lifestyle factors, and the immune system will be explored.

In this episode, you’ll learn about COVID-19 death statistics, how the immune system is affected by viruses, diseases, and lifestyle factors, and hear about my personal COVID-19 infection. Most importantly, you will learn what I believe caused my sickness and how I recovered rapidly, achieving peak levels of fitness and performance. Finally, you will learn the most vital changes you can make to improve your health today.

Topics:
[2:27] COVID-19 and comorbidities – Data from the CDC
[5:15] Immunopathological mechanisms of coronaviruses and many common diseases
[6:49] Lifestyle and the immune system
[9:02] Infected with COVID-19: My personal experience
[11:49] Lifestyle factors that put me in an immunocompromised state
[14:59] What you can start doing today to optimize your health during a pandemic

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Thank you all for joining me on this journey to lifelong health, happiness, and higher performance. And remember, always be grateful, love yourself, and serve others.

Discover the behind-the-scenes roller coaster of success and failure of a professional athlete, NCAA national champion, university valedictorian, engineer, and voracious learner. From being the last cut from every minor hockey team to playing in NHL organizations, overcoming OCD and anxiety to becoming a university valedictorian, and losing everything to achieving peak health, happiness, and performance, I have learned many valuable lessons first hand that I want to share with the world.

The origins of Learn II Perform started in March of 2020 at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic. I had no job, no prospects, and $70k of debt. My 20-year hockey career had abruptly ended. I was stuck in my parent’s basement at 26 years old. And to top it all off, I was infected with COVID-19 at the peak of the panic and uncertainty. Looking back, I believe it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

In this episode, you will learn:
-        Why you should listen to this podcast
-        How this podcast will help you optimize your life
-        How I have transformed my life and achieved high performance
-        The motivation for creating this podcast

Topics:
[3:29] Why should you listen to this podcast?
[4:36] How will this podcast help you optimize your life?
[5:57] Who Am I? My personal story
[8:28] Being ghosted by a coach as a pro hockey player
[9:20] Lifelong struggle with OCD and anxiety
[11:00] Why COVID-19 was the best thing that ever happened to my life
[12:34] The purpose of Learn II Perform

For more information, please visit:
Website: https://learniiperform.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com//braedenostepchuk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/braedenostepchuk/

Thank you all for joining me on this journey to lifelong health, happiness, and higher performance. And remember, always be grateful, love yourself, and serve others.

Learn the secrets to optimizing your human potential so that you can elevate your health, happiness, and performance. All the heavy lifting is done for you: scientific and anecdotal evidence will be condensed into short, practical lessons so that you can immediately learn to perform. Topics include health, fitness, nutrition, philosophy, mindset, skill acquisition, and much more.

Join Braeden Ostepchuk – a professional athlete, NCAA national champion, university valedictorian, engineer, and voracious learner – as he condenses everything he has learned through an authentic review of his lifelong pursuit of greatness.

For more information, please visit:
Website: https://learniiperform.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com//braedenostepchuk/
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I look forward to joining you all on this journey to lifelong health, happiness, and higher performance. And remember, always be grateful, love yourself, and serve others.