- My next guest says,
he holds the secret to being smarter,
faster and happier.
And spoiler alert, it's not magic.
(laughing)
He's a two-time New York Times bestselling author.
Host of the award-winning podcast, Bulletproof Radio.
And the CEO of Bulletproof Coffee.
Please welcome David Asprey.
(audience cheering and clapping)
I want to jump right into your story.
You used to weigh over 300 pounds.
And before the age of 30,
you were diagnosed with heart disease,
arthritis and brain dysfunction.
- Yep.
- But then, you completely changed your life
and you built an empire in the process.
Okay, what was the moment of your awakening?
- I decided, after I had two knee surgeries,
I'm not gonna be fat anymore,
most important thing in my life.
I worked out an hour-and-a-half a day,
six days a week for 18 months.
I went on a low-fat, low-calorie diet.
And the end of that,
I could max out all the machines at the gym except for two.
And I still weighed 300 pounds.
I thought it was a moral failing, right?
It wasn't me, it didn't work, it was bad advice.
- Now, you became famous and really, really wealthy,
promoting ideas like,
adding butter to your coffee to make yourself smarter.
And for claiming that you figured out a way to live
till you're a 180 years old.
A friend of mine who's a trainer,
turned me on to Bulletproof Coffee.
And I'm telling you, man,
it really started having an effect on me.
And I started, really, man,
getting a little bit
more clarity. - Yeah.
- My appetite was under control
and I got the energy that I needed.
Because I combined it,
well, right now,
I'm combining it with intermittent fasting.
- Amen, that's in my first book,
was all about that, yeah. - Okay, so, talk to--
Talk to us about your latest book.
It's called, Game Changers.
You've come up with 46 rules to change your life.
How did you come up with these rules?
- On Bulletproof Radio,
I've interviewed now,
almost 600 people who have done really big things
to change their part of the world.
Nobel Prize winners,
Navy SEALs, authors of big books, astrophysicists,
people who are winning at their game.
And I asked them this question,
what are your three pieces of advice
for anyone who wants to perform better as a human being?
And instead of saying,
I'm gonna fall with this one group.
I wanted to say, what do they all agree on?
I'm gonna do that.
And I worked with a statistician,
we boiled down the answers.
And that's kind of wisdom,
it took thousands and thousands of hours to dig it out.
But it meant,
I get to use that to help run Bulletproof
and to be a better Dad
and just to be a better human.
I just want to learn from the best.
That's what made me write this book.
- Wow. (audience cheering)
What do you think is the first mistake that people make
when they're trying to pursue success?
- When you say, you'll try, you're actually lying.
So, these people don't try to do stuff,
they just do stuff.
And they say, I'm going to do it.
And they might fail, they're okay with that.
- Yeah, they're okay with that.
(audience clapping) - Yeah.
- How important is failure to success, for you?
- All of the people I interviewed,
had substantial failures in their career.
And the difference was that,
instead of shying away from failure,
they just realized,
it was learning.
So, what I do with my kids-- - Yeah.
- At night, I ask them,
what are three things you're grateful for,
and then, tell me.
And then, I say, tell me something you failed at today?
And if they don't have anything that day,
I go, oh, maybe, tomorrow can be a better day.
(audience laughing) - Yeah.
- And so, if you're not failing,
you're not working hard enough.
You're not (mumbles). - No, man.
- You gotta just love failure.
Every time you fail like,
yes, I did it. - Yeah.
(audience cheering and clapping)
Hey, man, I really, really appreciate you being here, man.
- Thank you, man. (audience cheering)
- Really do. (audience cheering)
Everybody, his book, Game Changers,
is available in stores and on digital platform.
Pick up your copy today, everybody.
It's worth investing in yourself.
We'll be right back. (audience cheering)
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