What's up folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with top athletes,

scientists, experts, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their

peak and what you can do to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host, Will Amid,

founder and CEO of Woop, and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

On this week's episode, we're continuing our series on mental health by going deep on

the human nature.

Whoop VP of Performance, Kristen Holmes, sits down with leading evolutionary psychologist, Dr. Bill

von Hippel for a discussion on what makes us

tick as humans and how that plays a role in our mental health. Dr. von Hippel is the author

of the book The Social Leap and explains how the experience of our ancestors shaped the way our

minds and bodies react to stressful situations, both positive

and negative emotions and social settings. Kristen and Dr. Von Hipple discuss the basic elements of

human nature and how understanding ourselves can better prepare us for daily life, how the stress

response systems our bodies developed

millions of years ago can sometimes prove challenging in the modern world, social comparisons

and the role they play in both happiness and unhappiness, self-control and willpower, and the things

you can do to set yourself up for success and why we think about the future

and how honing your ability to stay in the present can help you get into a flow state.

Really great episode. As a reminder, you can get 15% off in WOOP membership if you use the code

will. That's WI-L-L. Without further ado, here are Kristen Holmes and Dr. Bill Von Hipple.

Dr. Van von Hippel. Dr. Von Hippel is a leading expert in the field of evolutionary psychology

and the author of a beautiful book entitled The Social Leap.

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