Own the Day, Own Your Life

spread evenly and regularly across the day might not be possible. And that’s okay. The point is to recognize that cycles—and not total hours—might be the way to get your body the rest you need.

Contrary to the shitty advice that became popular over the last decade, you don’t want to be eating small snacks throughout the day. That is only good for athletes training at extremely high intensity.

Just one day. You gotta walk before you run, and a day is the first step. To own your life, you gotta own the day. You’re going to read this book, and then prepare to live one single day completely optimally.

ridiculous shit possible. The typical American breakfast, for example, is usually some combination of refined carbohydrates and sugar made conveniently available to us, in bulk, on the run, at rock-bottom prices by the great people of the breakfast-industrial complex.

consuming cold beverages while they eat. Any beverage dilutes the HCL in your stomach, making the overall acid concentration acting on your food weaker, while the cold slows down your digestion like a snake in a snowstorm. Leave the cold drinks for well before and well after your meals. This has the added

chess and Monopoly when I want to ignite my strategic fire. When I just want to laugh, I whip out Cards Against Humanity. And when I want to let my nerd flag fly with my nerd brethren from the multiverse, it’s Magic: The Gathering all the way. Planeswalkers for life, dawg!

sensation in your extremities. That is the sign that a shift is happening and your blood is hyperoxygenated. For most people that effect starts to kick in around thirty breaths, but it can take up to fifty, depending on certain factors. Note: It’s important not to overbreathe to the point of serious light-headedness, strong tingles, or involuntary

Cold exposure is one of the best sources of acute stress, and can be accessed in showers, cold tubs, and cryotherapy. The cold also offers the opportunity to practice an essential life skill—what I call “mental override”—the ability to make yourself do something you don’t want to do.

The first of these principles involves shelving sugar for the foreseeable future and making friends with fat. And if you can’t find the resources to get that done, then skip breakfast entirely and reap the benefits of intermittent fasting.