Modern Wisdom

I say fun oh my gosh don't clip that ruthless but interesting yeah interesting how about i really did mean it when i said i don't care how gross the theory is i just want to know if true uh but i don't know how much infanticide has actually played a role in humans but it's kind of funny and this actually relates back to the political conversation we were having earlier is that some of the initial theories from sarah hurdy on women's infidelity in humans were related to paternity uncertainty and hilariously given that you know this is something that louis beshoed uh pointed out to me which is that you know in the 70s 80s and 90s these findings on women as sexual strat of strategists dual mating paternity uncertainty creation these sorts of things they were championed at that time as feminist ideas and pushed back upon by right wing people who wanted women to you know they had this archaic view of women as passive and you not engaging in the sexual marketplace as active agents and now today we have the complete political reverse where it's the same set of scientific findings but it's the super feminist groups that are saying oh that's just not true they're kind of acting like the old right wingers and it's the really misogynistic groups such as you know the the tail end of incels and and such who are holding up these same findings and saying they're great so that I think that that's better evidence than I've heard for anything that uh these facts facts are facts are neutral and if you have an agenda you can collect a set of facts and spin them in a way that fits whatever agenda you like the same findings that today we call our sex we call sexist were originally you know championed by by feminist scholars and that's that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

I would say that the truth about cinderella so yeah that's such a fun one about infanticide and humans

I say in the book that resilience is suffering strategically managed.

What I mean by that is, so often I think people think in terms of gritting your teeth, manning up. For me, it just wasn't quite right to say that. That's not an approach that I found works. It's like me and you go for a run right now. If we're 5k into the run and we're going to run a marathon, you turn to me and say, Ross, I've got a pebble in my shoe. I won't go, resilience, man up, run with it and wear it down. No, I'll be like, just let's stop and take the pebble out, Chris.

It's suffering strategically managed.

If I was to add a chapter to the Art of Resilience, it would probably be that story.

Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday, Art of Resilience by yourself on Audible.

Josh Waitzkin from the art of learning calls it tighter and tighter circles.

And this is the guy that Seeking Bobby Fisher was written about.

It's called Creating Future People, the Science and Ethics of Genetic Enhancement.

And so does um, you know, who else talks about it is uh, the guy who did black swan, nothing to let, yeah. And he talks about basically like every eco-every kind of complex ecosystem it needs to be challenged, it needs to have like a certain kind of like uh, like it needs to have the strain for just to stay healthy.

And so does um, you know, who else talks about it is uh, the guy who did black swan, nothing to let, yeah. And he talks about basically like every eco-every kind of complex ecosystem it needs to be challenged, it needs to have like a certain kind of like uh, like it needs to have the strain for just to stay healthy.

There's a book, 2012 book called Descartes' Error by a neuroscientist who basically it's now become more nuanced but I'm going to do the un-nuanced version of it which is basically the the decision-making part of our brain is the emotional center of our brain. If you take the emotional center of the brain out of your body your IQ stays the same but your life falls apart because it takes you a long time to decide what color pen it takes you

Great, if you're a parent go to um, get a book called Listen. It's a fantastic book on this, and one of the greatest is the parenting.

Yeah, the book is Listening, that the the organization is called Hand in Hand parenting and it'll it's really great five tools, super easy to use, anyways, easy to you easy to understand, hard as shit to use.

I think everyone should, for example, read Save the Cat.

You know The Vertical Diet is really everything I want my clients to know and to do. It's a compilation of everything I've learned from over 30 years from college to coaching to competing to being coached collaborating with great athletes and then partnering with Dr. Damon McEwen who's a PhD RDN director of dietetics at UNLV and we got together and spent a couple of years together producing and putting science to over 250 peer reviewed published articles and then of course references to lots of videos and just I think professionals in the industry and they're each in their respective fields that helped my clients navigate all the things that are important because it's multifactorial. It's not just a diet right. It's obviously you know it's nutrition it's digestion it's sleep hydration injury prevention and rehab blood testing blood sugar blood pressure management. It's just a chapter after chapter after chapter of the things that I commonly questions I've been asked and things that I want my clients to do to be successful in a program because it's not just one thing and poor sleep your diet is not going to fix that problem.

I have an e-book a vertical diet e-book where I've updated that periodically because I can I can add it's on version 3.0 currently and soon to be 4.0 on my website but those are the kinds of links to research that I supply and there when people ask me what about blue zones I've gotten this question I've probably answered over 100,000 DMs in the last six or seven years and a lot of those questions are the same which is kind of what creates the foundation of the information that I provide and I know that this is what people want to know this is what they ask and so I pool those into most common questions and I endeavor to answer those so that they're covered and I refer people to those answers

Staneffarding.com will get you access to the meal prep company and access to my vertical diet 3.0 e-book soon to be 4.0 I update it and I give future copies for free to always a living document I keep updating it at Stan Effarding is my Instagram and then the rhinos rants are on YouTube Stan Effarding and there's some of them are old but they're fun there it's a whole bunch of good stuff people really enjoy those

Principles is a great book.

So I had a really interesting conversation once with the author, Michael Lewis, um, of Moneyball and The Blind Side and the Big Short.

Rutger Bregman wrote a book called Humankind. And in that, he talked about the puppification of humans.

If anyone's read Chaos by Tom O'Neill, it's a really good book. And he tries to make this link between Jolly West, who was another researcher, a psychiatrist who is doing MKUltra experiments on some people. And he was in L.A. at the time that Manson was there.

So Tom O'Neill tries to make this connection, but he himself admits in the book and in the Netflix documentary based on it, Chaos, and in several interviews that he's never really found the connection.

I just finished the Ken Burns documentary on Ernest Hemingway and here's another he was the author of The Century I don't think that's an exaggeration and his personal life was the most despicable miserable immoral drunken life that you can imagine and of course he ended by taking his own life but the finer details of what his day to day life were like nobody would look at that and say that looks fun.

You've read The Selfish Gene you're looking at humanity you should be looking at DNA that's I mean listen we're just we're just meat puppets getting the stuff to the future right

Julian Jaynes wrote this classic back in 1976 called The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and one of the things that's great about it is that it's a beautifully written book.

And one of the most interesting books I've read is The History of Manners by Norbert Elias.

And it's a history of manners in the Western world from the middle ages until the present. And the fascinating thing is in the middle ages, if you wanted to cook something, you would cut up the animal carcass in front of your friends.

In the middle ages, it was completely normal for friends and family to have sex in front of each other.

Knights would write poetry about how much they loved the act of killing.