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This week we talk to Akshay Nanavati
After overcoming drug addiction, alcoholism, PTSD from fighting the war in Iraq and recovering from the brink of suicide, Akshay Nanavati has since explored the most hostile environments on the planet and built a business helping people live limitless lifestyles. Combining his life experience with years of research in science and spirituality, he wrote a book called “Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness.” Of the book, The Dalai Lama said “Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the positive side of our lives.”
In This Interview, Akshay Nanavati and I Discuss…
- The Wolf Parable
- His book, Fearvana: The revolutionary science of how to turn fear into health, wealth, and happiness
- How he got the Dali Lama to write the forward for his book
- That we don’t control what first shows up in our brain
- How if you feel fear and stress is not your fault
- The second dart/arrow parable
- Acting your way into right thinking literally restructures the pathways in your brain
- The ability to develop a positive relationship to suffering
- Committing yourself to the worthy struggle
- Reducing life to the simplest next step
- Dealing with fear – it’s ok to be scared
- Bringing the rational mind into fearful situations
- The challenge response
- Fear is a gift if you believe it to be
- The growth mindset vs The fixed mindset
- If you want to be great you have to believe that you are
- How ego can be both helpful and unhelpful
- The worthy struggle
- Keeping things automated in your day so that you can save self-discipline or willpower for the times you need it
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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other.
One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.
The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”
The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed
The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.
This parable goes by many names including:
The Tale of Two Wolves
The Parable of the Two Wolves
Two Wolves
Which Wolf Do You Feed
Which Wolf are You Feeding
Which Wolf Will You Feed
It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs.
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