Way back before capitalism, it used to be that self-welfare was the key
part of our lives. We would face formidable physical and situational
challenges and have to endure them, alone and with our tribe. It was likely
those trials were the most meaningful experiences for our prior relatives—
the very thing they could depend on and take comfort in. Today we’ve lost
that ability. Comfort is handed to industries that insulate us for a fee.
We spend money and depend on hermetically sealed homes, cars, drugs, food
and clothing. If things get rough we rely on doctors, pills, and booze. But
recently, there’s a rising voice that we’ve come to the end of the Western
Medical Model. An awareness that those things don’t make life better
anymore. That there are other roads. Some, like this week’s guest Wim Hof,
believe it’s time to tap back into our natural abilities. That they’ve been
forgotten. If there’s anyone that knows about getting out of their comfort
zone, it’s him. His journey started when--with four children at home--his
wife took her life by jumping out an eight story window. To deal with his
grief, he went out into the extreme cold. Since then, he’s shown through
examples of enduring extreme cold like being submerged in ice for nearly
two hours or using his mind to ward off disease, that anyone has amazing
power to face anything and literally self-regulate. He’s now using the best
scientists in the world to back up what he’s learned and therefore
challenge science, culture and the very industries we’ve come to assume are
the answer.