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Ever notice how a growth mindset leads to opportunity and success and how a poverty mindset leaves you with nothing but want, and often spirals downwards into an ongoing funk? We have to use our physical state to change our mental state, and vice versa. There’s a feedback loop between our bodies and brains, which is why mindset and behavior are so powerful for creating the reality we desire. 

This week on The Doctor’s Farmacy I dig into how to do that, and so much more, with Tom Bilyeu. Tom a filmmaker and serial entrepreneur who chased money hard for nearly a decade and came up emotionally bankrupt. To that end, he and his partners sold their technology company and founded Quest Nutrition—a company predicated not on money, but rather on creating value for people with the mission to end metabolic disease, something impacting Tom’s own family. After exiting Quest and generating extraordinary personal wealth, Bilyeu turned his attention to the other pandemic facing society, the poverty of poor mindset. To solve the mindset problem at scale and help hundreds of millions of people adopt an empowering mindset he has co-founded the media studio, Impact Theory with his business partner and wife, Lisa Bilyeu. Their aim is to influence the cultural subconscious by creating content that empowers people.

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Here are more of the details from our interview: 

• Tom’s journey away from chasing money to identifying his true top values (5:20)

• How the morbid obesity of his family members lead Tom to learn about health and nutrition (13:37)

• The poverty of poor mindset (16:11)

• Why Tom believes narrative is so fundamental to shifting mindset (23:15) 

• The brain’s default mode network, psychedelics, and thought patterns (27:39)

• Changing your physical state changes your mental state 34:24)

• How a poverty mindset can become a fixed mindset, as opposed to one of growth (42:51)

• Why believing you can improve is the only belief that matters (45:48) 

• The benefits of being anti-fragile (54:15)

• The success of Tom’s marriage (56:57)

Find Impact Theory online at https://impacttheory.com/. Follow Tom Bilyeu on Facebook @TomBilyeu, on Instagram @TomBilyeu, and on Twitter @ImpactTheory.

• Despite living in abundance, people are more thin-skinned than ever before
  • “Because life is so ‘easy’ right now and we’re living in an era of infinite abundance, we actually haven’t developed the internal musculature to handle failure or even perceived failure. We are turning into an army of porcelain dolls. We are soft… We’re thin-skinned.” – Neil Pasricha
• Every morning, journal on these three prompts:
  • “I will let go of…”
  • “I am grateful for…”
  • “I will focus on…” 
• Advice for creators:
  • “Ironically, the way to find your audience again, and again, and again, is to ignore your audience and just focus on having fun and being selfish” – Neil Pasricha
• Pick up a reading habit – books are the greatest form of compressed knowledge that we have
• Whenever you’re contemplating a big decision in life, ask yourself:
  • “Which of these options would I regret not doing more on my deathbed?”
  • “What will I do if I fail? What’s my plan B?”
• Incorporate intermittent smartphone/social media fasts into your routine

• We are too thin skinned. No matter how great our achievements, we're crushed by the simplest things. Neil shares some practical advice to navigate through pain and build resiliency
• Always do something you're learning... Or as I like to say, how to give yourself permission to suck
• There's a reason why they call something a "practice". We get into how to let go and allow yourself to be human.
• and much more

Enjoy!

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• The first law of medicine: A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weak test
  • “This, to me, is one the great neglected ideas in medicine, perhaps one of the greatest neglected ideas in the world” – Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Siddhartha presents an example:
  • Say someone flips a coin 20 times, and it comes up tails on each flip
  • Two people, a mathematician and a child, are tasked with predicting the result of the 21st coin flip
    • The mathematician says there’s a 50% chance it will come up tails, and a 50% chance it comes p heads
    • The child, though, realizes that the coin must be rigged
  • Going further:
    • The mathematician thinks of the world as having no history
    • But the child realizes that everything has priors, and you need to understand them before you understand the posteriors 
• Siddhartha adds:
  • Most of the time, we’re living our lives like the child, always thinking of prior antecedents when pondering life’s questions
  • “You can only interpret a test, in the light of what that test has predicted in the past… The past performance of a test tells you something, but not everything, about the future performance of a test.” – Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • “The past is a guide to the future… And this applies to medicine, although it’s a forgotten rule in medicine.”

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