 So this is a review of What Doesn't Kill Us, How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength. It's by Scott Carney and Wim Hof. This book is about breathing, mindset, cold exposure, Wim Hof in general, and Scott Carney is a journalist who goes on an adventure with Wim Hof. As well, it does mention a surfing story with Laird Hamilton, which explains the surfing techniques. It is a primitive book, so cold in general is his friend. How Wim Hof comes with this is just having the exposure of the outside world, being connected. And many people nowadays are caught up in the tech revolution, the comfortable Western lifestyle, where you can have Uber take you to your destination. You don't even have to go out and cook. You can have Uber Eats bringing the food to you. So you can be a weak individual. So what this is is going outside will make you stronger. In other words, nature heals all wounds and deeper breathing can heal broken heart. And if you look at yourself right now, are you actually going places or are you just into an intellectual world? Like if you look in a map that you're at, are you just staying inside on your GPS system? Or are you actually going out and challenging yourself? And some of these techniques can help you or at least give you inspiration to go outside. There's no quick fix, but it's just being curious. And since Scott Carney is kind of like a wimp, he's a journalist for for some big industry. You have to be aware of the primitive air and not discount it to be connected, not just to intellectualize the shortcuts that this is the 21st century. We've outgrown our natural instinct where if you want to understand nature, you have to go outside. There is a darkness element, a pain element, as well as natural earthy elements that you must be exposed to the wind chill will cause you to get in touch with Musashi's book of wind. If you are just living in a comfort and pleasurable world, you're going to be into a state of homeostasis where even a little prick, you know, it's like younger people or just people, if they get triggered very easily, that they're so weak, like a jellyfish that just goes with the flow of the water, it has no hardness to it, no direction, no virtue, no sharp virtue to pursue or just to take action, just butt hurt. And some of the interesting parts of the story is the freezing can cause your corneas to free. That's how cold the water and the air can get. The Iceman, who is Wim Hof, uses breathing techniques to relax himself, not to be stunted by the fear or the pain. And how I see this book and how it influences me is, as you can see in the title of this, is cold approach is my teacher. Cold approach is your friend. It may be dark. It may, you might get hurt. It might be scary, but in the long run, if you keep on doing that path with taking action, having the courage just to approach a dark world and you come out alive, you will not have this nervous breathing, this triggering shit that happens to people. And for me, the Laird Hamilton, who is a famous surfer, he surfs these big ways. I have a story about surfing in general. I was out in San Francisco, maybe a while ago when I was younger, and it is very hard to get out there. You have to paddle a lot and the waves were super big. I'm talking 15, 17, there's a couple other surfers out there, but it was really big and the wave crashes on you that, you know, took the leash off me. So I was stuck probably about 30 seconds, the first wave taking me down. So I have these relaxation techniques where I just let go. One technique is I do cover my head to make sure I don't hit the ground. Even though it's sand there, you can't hit a rock. Mostly I'm just scared of hitting a rock. So I cover my head, but mostly I just relax and let it let go. And when I got out of the wave, I had like one breath and then boom another wave. So I was stuck another like 30 seconds and these are big waves. I was stuck in there for a while. That was like the only time I've really been scared, but I made it out. And if I didn't have those techniques, these relaxation techniques, I could have died there in general. I have enough experience where I just relax and go with the flow. I know what to get out. I don't fight the riptide is something they teach you also these cold shower techniques. The cold water is so cold that it does spice something in you and it keeps you humble. It keeps you alive and your survival mechanisms start to kick in. So you get like a little adrenaline rush as well as I did take cold showers in Guatemala for about a month and a half and one month in Costa Rica, which I do not recommend, but it does feel good. It kind of has a wake you up fashion to it. And you'll see people do these ice tank things or yeah, it's called cryotherapy. People pay for this when all you have to do is really just go out and go get cold. But I do go out to the Canyon Ranch spa and there's another place Araya in Vegas that they have a range for a shower that is very cool as well as an ice cold water that you can do like this hot, cold like therapies, which do feel good. And it does open up your pores and it feels, you can feel alive with that. And when you are under these extreme conditions, you have to breathe slow. You can be in a flow state that takes more experience, slow motion. Your brain uses so much energy that when you have this exciting stress of what your mind is happening and when you have the experience and the techniques, the training, you can use less of this energy. And one thing you notice about say people in general, like they choose the comfort. So what this there's this event called Tough Mudder and what is this more of a group event and got what guys are doing, they're combining with females is that creating like a social group and it's like a controlled challenge. And it's not a challenge when you do that. It is when you go out on your own. I mean, they throw mud on you. Oh, I'm dirty. It's like a city folk thing where you want to avoid this type of behavior. You want to go out deep into nature and you can do yourself and suppose there's a ton of white nighting happening at these events. So just go out cold approach is your teacher and also the Wim Hof method. What it is is you breathe deeply and then you let loose slowly and you do this about 30 times and you could go ahead and research other videos about it. But that's typically what it is. Thanks for listening.