The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Dung Trinh
243 episodes
14 hours ago
Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
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Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
Amygdala vs. Dopamine: How Your Brain Handles Stress, Motivation, and Emotions
The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
13 minutes
2 days ago
Amygdala vs. Dopamine: How Your Brain Handles Stress, Motivation, and Emotions
Send us a text We map the biology of fear from the autonomic seesaw to the HPA axis, then show how the amygdala links threat to motivation and how the prefrontal cortex writes the story that guides action. We share a two-step framework to extinguish old circuits and build stronger, positive ones with therapy, breathing, and smart supplement timing. • clear definitions of fear, stress, anxiety and trauma • autonomic nervous system and HPA axis explained • cortisol’s role in long-term memory a...
The Longevity Podcast: Optimizing HealthSpan & MindSpan
Send us a text We pull apart the engine behind David Goggins’ discipline, mapping his friction-first lifestyle to the brain’s willpower circuits and the study methods that let him learn what doesn’t come easy. Fear of comfort, not love of pain, drives a daily practice that keeps his resolve alive. • brutal origins, obesity, and a hated job • pen-and-paper study loops and page-by-page memorization • friction as growth rather than goals as rewards • choosing smoke jumping to cap success and fi...
