#008: Jason Silva on Overcoming Anxiety and Finding Flow

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🗓️ 7 February 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Emmy-nominated host of Brain Games, the highest-rated show in National Geographic’s history, Jason Silva is a masterful content creator. Prepare to experience the ecstasy of flow as Jason unveils the paradigm-shifting philosophies that so beautifully encapsulate the agony and ecstasy of the human experience in this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. SHOW NOTES Tom and Jason share their enthusiasm to celebrate those who inspired them [2:55] Jason talks about artistic interpretation and subjective experience [5:24] Tom and Jason bridge the coauthored narrative of life with the malleability of the past [7:01] Jason describes the thrill of the existential chase to experience cognitive orgasm [9:35] Tom and Jason discuss the rapture and power of communicating feeling [12:01] Jason talks about synthesizing complicated ideas into a “flow.” [14:17] Jason reveals how he overcame introversion, anxiety, and fear and stabilized inspiration. [18:34] Tom and Jason discuss hunger and why we are insatiable wanting machines [23:23] Tom and Jason talk about creativity as a form of magic and leveraging paradox [30:08] Tom and Jason discuss the pandemics of the body and mind [34:54] Jason describes feeling the power to do good [44:23] MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Best-selling author, journalist, and entrepreneur Steven Kotler - http://bit.ly/1Kpf918 [3:07] Leading expert on the neuro-physiology of human performance Jaime Wheal - http://bit.ly/1L8K5KS [3:08] One of Jason’s favorite thinkers Ernest Becker - http://bit.ly/2ki44ND [3:45] Media Theorist Marshall Mcluhan - http://bit.ly/1iXGABU [5:14] Well-known scientist Carl Sagan - http://bit.ly/2kEmJnR [7:39] Author of War and Peace Leo Tolstoy - http://bit.ly/2cH4YR4 [10:16] The father of flow state Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - http://bit.ly/1sBl2oL [12:47] Writer, essayist, and professor David Foster Wallace - http://bit.ly/2dqgqkN [17:12] Anthropologist and Pulitzer Prize winner Ernest Becker - http://bit.ly/2lhTq81[27:18] Mythologist, writer, and lecturer Joseph Campbell - http://bit.ly/2jZWDrA [29:00] Journalist and political commentator Bill Moyers - http://huff.to/2kkvd2s [29:23] Author, philosopher, and neuroscientist Sam Harris - http://bit.ly/1jByw0d [35:20] ORGANIZATIONS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Neurohacker, a collective of scientists, technologists, academics, and creatives - http://bit.ly/2leVZrn [3:09] The Flow Genome Project - http://bit.ly/1qGQJy5 [12:46] XPRIZE, an innovative engine and facilitator of exponential change - http://bit.ly/2lhQ7xo [36:50] TALKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Jason Silva on Startalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson - http://bit.ly/2kyfhYZ [7:29] Carl Sagan narrating The Pale Blue Dot - http://bit.ly/1mRyr95 [9:21] The Power of Myth interview with Joseph Campbell - http://bit.ly/2kLNlmf [29:21] TERMS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Psilocybin, a chemical obtained from certain types of fresh or dried mushroom - http://bit.ly/2lf2b2K [9:13] Hedonic Adaptation - http://bit.ly/2kGwkKz [24:29] The Singularity - http://bit.ly/1TMfHXl [37:12] MOVIES, TV, & BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Jodie Foster’s mystical flight in the movie Contact - http://bit.ly/2i2VulV [11:23] La La Land (2016 Movie) Official Trailer - http://bit.ly/2fgou7H [21:02] David Lenson’s book On Drugs - http://amzn.to/2kyIL93 [16:22] Jason’s New TV show “Origins” on National Geographic - http://bit.ly/2kkBpY5 [41:28] FOLLOW JASON SILVA FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/1Mn0zKh INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/2lidlU9 TWITTER: https://twitter.com/jasonsilva

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0:00.0	Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory.
0:09.6	You're here because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless, but you know
0:14.9	that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it.
0:18.6	So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and amazing
0:23.3	ideas that are going to help you actually execute on your dreams.
0:28.3	Today's guest defies the convention of all my normal intros, reading a list of his accomplishments
0:33.4	would be to miss the point entirely.
0:35.6	While he is the Emmy-nominated host of Brain Games, the highest rated show in Nat Geo's history,
0:41.7	airing in 45 languages across 171 countries, this modern day performance philosopher and filmmaker
0:49.0	cannot be described in terms of demographics and viewership. He must be experienced.
0:55.6	You have to let him crawl inside your mind, clear the cobwebs and paint on the walls of your brain
1:01.3	like an artistic cave dweller showing you a vision of the world not as it is, but as it could be.
1:08.8	His infectious optimism has earned him the name of Wonder Junky, but from where I'm sitting,
1:14.0	he is the Wonder Dealer. His shots of awe will leave anyone scratching for more.
1:18.9	He spins ideas into a magical tapestry of intellectual ecstasy like an Ibiza DJ in the height of
1:26.2	their powers. His beautiful, transcendent, and paradigm-shifting micro-documentaries may be born
1:34.5	out of existential anxiety, but they so manifestly capture the agony and ecstasy of the human experience
1:42.1	that they've been viewed over 100 million times. His poetic cosmological musing smash
1:49.9	together Shakespearean drama was say, Ganesk profundity like the Heydron Collider smash's particles
1:56.4	resulting in the same degree of revelatory fireworks. So please help me in welcoming the host
2:04.4	of the all-new National Geographic Show about the birth and rise of the human species itself
2:11.3	origins the one and I assure you only Jason Silva.
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