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3 BENEFITS of FASTING - Do not let your appetites control you! - 025

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Peter Saddington's video explores the broader concept of fasting beyond just abstaining from food, highlighting the importance of consciously denying ourselves readily available comforts and pleasures to avoid being controlled by our appetites. He emphasizes the need to strategically place ourselves in positions of discomfort and challenge, drawing parallels to the transformative experience of using a sauna. Peter discusses fasting from technology and other regularly consumed things as a way to regain control. The video delves into the idea of “choosing your pain,” using the intense heat and subsequent freezing plunge of sauna use as a metaphor for deliberately confronting discomfort. This act of overcoming oneself, of willingly facing hardship, Peter argues, leads to a sense of renewal and personal growth. He also briefly touches upon the health benefits of intermittent fasting related to food, such as improved blood sugar and mental stability.

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We need to challenge ourselves to overcome ourselves. That's what the whole idea about the sauna is is I love overcoming myself I love overcome the challenge of overcoming comfort Because when you can overcome your own comfort To move to discomfort for the and and within that some opportunity to grow for me It's a rebirth experience every time I go to the fucking sauna I Built many startups most of them the fail so Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be we're gonna end it right there Three benefits of fasting That's what I want to talk with you guys about today Three major benefits of fasting now I came to this this story I came to this idea and talking about how important fasting is Because yesterday I had my sauna my sauna visit now or sauna or gym gel bang or whatever you

want to call it I went to a sauna and some of you guys have known this some of you guys didn't know this But I enjoy going to a sauna pretty much once a week or so And it is a and there's an entire system to it and I'm gonna explain that in a little bit but We need and I say we and this is important is an important reminder for me is that we need to learn to fast Obviously whenever we think of fasting the first thing that we think about is you know food right and Fasting from food this makes sense. There's a lot of it's something that comes up naturally But there are a lot of other things that we should fast from like technology or Anything that we regularly indulge in let's be intellectually honest to my friends in today's day

and age It is so easy to satisfy completely satisfy your Apatites with digital tech now-logy. I mean ain't it easy guys You no longer have to ever experience anything in the real world You can now visit that place digitally you can go see that place digitally you can quote-a-quote Experience that place digitally some of you like to experience yourself Touching yourself digitally I mean let's be into it. Let's Let's be honest guys. It is so easy in today's world to satisfy our Apatites and we regularly indulge in these things and That's part of the problem That's part of the problem is that those saddest the things that satisfy us our appetites that are so easy to satisfy They end up controlling us But let's talk quickly. Let's let's get this whole fasting idea out of the way when it comes to food because that's not

what I'm going to be talking about today But clearly it has been studied there are tons and tons of health benefits to fasting when it comes to food Weight loss improved blood sugar level heart disease lower heart disease better brain function reduction of cancer chances Better mental stability. I mean there's just there's so many great health benefits of Fasting now what one thing that I do and you guys can spend some time searching for this online later is I Spend a lot of time doing intermittent fast. I spent a lot of time I intermittently fast I'm intermittently fast for small periods of time sometimes almost every other day Sometimes I'll go without food for a full six hours before I eat and that's really what intermittent fasting is so look it up If you're interested But let's get down to the core for me for

you guys can spend some time searching for this online later is I Spend a lot of time doing intermittent fast. I spent a lot of time I intermittently fast I'm intermittently fast for small periods of time sometimes almost every other day Sometimes I'll go without food for a full six hours before I eat and that's really what intermittent fasting is so look it up If you're interested But let's get down to the core for me for me so you guys can leverage my why I care about it so much the number one reason Guys the number one reason that I fast is very simple I enjoy the process or the feeling of renewal of purging toxins purging bad Juju right I like to use that terminal. I mean I enjoy the process of renewal of purging toxins feeling like really feeling Really really really feeling

everything inside of me being purged You know burn it with fire is how I like to say and I tell this to my wife before I head out to the sound It's like it's time to burn it with fire, right? And that's why that's what I love about the sauna Let me just go on a small tangent for just a second I've talked about this before but I don't mind sharing it again because it's such a visceral and real experience You know one of the things that I love about going to a sauna a sauna going to a sauna sound Is the fact that I can Choose my pain That's what I love about a sauna I Love the fact that I don't have to be at this place. I don't have to be in the scalding water I don't have to move from the

scalding water that I've sat in for 20 minutes almost Being suffocated with the heat. It's so intense and immediately moving from that and jumping into the freezing cold bath Gully that brings me alive. You know why? Because I am scared I'm scared and I have to build up my energy I have to build up my nerve to move from this epicly suffocating heat this boiling water to Like Arctic fucking in your face freezing cold water Where everything feels like it's dying that's the point That's what I love about it is I force myself I overcome myself I Face my death I face the hard choice now some of you guys are saying oh come on Peter. That's freaking easy. No No Go to if you can find yourself a Hot sauna place that has the hot bath cold bath if they don't have it hot

enough turn on the showers Make sure that it's scalding hot sit under there sit in that thing 20 minutes with a towel over your head So the the heat is so suffocatingly uncomfortable that you you Everything in your body screams get out of here. You're sweating. You're dying like your body is boiling and then Instead of saying I can retreat from this I can remove myself say you know I'm gonna go into even more pain intentionally. I'm gonna go into the cold freezing bath You tell me how much courage it'll take you to rile yourself up to do that. I do that weekly I love it. It's a challenge weekly But here's the point as I'm moving from the Scalding water to the freezing water. I am controlling my rebirth I am controlling my pain I am reminding myself What it means to deny comfort

you know I'm gonna go into even more pain intentionally. I'm gonna go into the cold freezing bath You tell me how much courage it'll take you to rile yourself up to do that. I do that weekly I love it. It's a challenge weekly But here's the point as I'm moving from the Scalding water to the freezing water. I am controlling my rebirth I am controlling my pain I am reminding myself What it means to deny comfort To deny my pleasures to deny my appetites to deny comfort For chosen discomfort chosen pain I Am controlling my death and rebirth in this new skin We need to learn To fast we need to learn to intentionally put ourselves into a position of different discomfort Put ourselves in a position where we need something else Especially we need to intentionally pull away from when it comes to fasting

from technology or anything that we consume regularly We need to challenge ourselves to overcome ourselves. That's what the whole idea about the sauna is is I love overcoming myself I love overcome the challenge of overcoming comfort Because when you can overcome your own comfort To move to discomfort for the and within that some opportunity to grow for me It's a rebirth experience every time I go to the fucking sauna But the things of the world the habits of your life the technology you consume and the appetites you satisfy You know what they end up doing over time. I said it before they end up controlling us especially technology Do you guys remember my my podcast on Fisher's a fundamental theorem of natural selection if you haven't listened to that one go back Search for it. Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection. Do you remember what

that was all about? I'll give you the TLDR you've adapted so much to today that you're actually dead You've adapted so much to today that you no longer have the ability to change for the future You've been controlled by your appetites. You've been controlled by your desires You've been controlled by your things you've been controlled by your habits and your behaviors We need to learn how to fast and there's only one rule to fasting at least for me It's time box it how long is it going to be six hours a day three days seven days a month Let's jump into it guys one of the three reasons the three biggest benefits of fasting to me Peter the beat coin Lambo number one The number one reason why fasting is good for the soul It's good for you to do is I desire to be

mastered by nothing no one I don't want to be mastered by anything. I don't want to be controlled by nobody I don't want anyone to have a say into how I run my life how I run my family I will take your advice if you're more successful than me if you have World experience life experience beyond me. I will take your advice, but other than that I will be mastered by nothing. I See so many people guys. I see so many people. I know so many slaves So many slaves to their carnal desires of the world food drink Drugs I know guys that are high every day Literally every day I know guys who are slaves to technology to social significance Why do people want to be fucking significant online none of it's real None of it's real Number one I want to be in

will be mastered by nothing. I See so many people guys. I see so many people. I know so many slaves So many slaves to their carnal desires of the world food drink Drugs I know guys that are high every day Literally every day I know guys who are slaves to technology to social significance Why do people want to be fucking significant online none of it's real None of it's real Number one I want to be in control of my life I want to be control of myself. I don't want to be mastered by nothing I don't want to be mastered by nobody. I don't want anyone to have say over me That's the number one reason why fasting is good for you is because it helps you regain control of Yourself remove the technology Remove the time bandits remove the Netflix remove the shit that's

Causing like wasting your time number two it freshens the senses it increases your sensitivity To life to the spirit to energy to God Whatever you want to call it But it freshens the senses You know what happens over time in anything is it becomes dull Right even the most juiciest supercar that I have purchased in my I have purchased in my past Even the juiciest cars all become dull over time, you know why that's the nature of reality That's the nature of life things become dull over time and you know what we need to remove that shit We need to remove the if and allow our bodies our minds our souls to fill in that spot We've become dull over time. We've become insensitive to the world to the spirit to energy You know what happens when you fast from technology fast from your appetites

fast from your carnal desires You Reignite passion you Reignite motivation and you say Peter. What does that mean? When you fast it freshens the senses it increases your sensitivity to the world and it Refocuses yourself on real priorities You know what happens when you fast? I'll tell you what happens to me when I fast I Remember missing passions I remember forgotten priorities. I Remember forgotten goals. I Remember forgotten self-promises to myself I remember why I'm doing what I'm doing I Remember why the pain is worth it. I remember why the journey is worth it I remember why the decisions are hard to make I remember why this is what I'm doing Number two, it allows you to refocus number three fasting from life From things on this world your appetites your tech your habits your things Right number three it removes bullshit from your life

Right. Yeah, you can refocus, but the better intent is to intentionally Remove shit from your life. We collect so much shit over time so much fucking baggage over time It's ridiculous. We're like walking through life as a giant magnet that just attracts all sorts of good and All sorts of sometimes shitty too The problem is is that we need to be stripped clean sometimes God leave fuck like that's one of the things that I love the most about the sauna And so I love the most about burning it with fire when I'm there scraping my skin down to the fucking bloody core Like I come back with these I've been scraping my skin off all the dead skin You know, this is a crazy guys don't I'm not crazy. I'm not sad ol massacistic here But I mean there's a thing about just scraping on

like that's one of the things that I love the most about the sauna And so I love the most about burning it with fire when I'm there scraping my skin down to the fucking bloody core Like I come back with these I've been scraping my skin off all the dead skin You know, this is a crazy guys don't I'm not crazy. I'm not sad ol massacistic here But I mean there's a thing about just scraping on the dead skin off to your whole body's like beat red It's awesome and then you jump in the the the scalding water and you burn it with fire after you burn it with fire You got real fucking balls you jump in the cold thing and you sit there and you fucking die like Like I love it. I love that process guys like we walk through life Don't

miss this we walk through life as a living magnet collecting shit. We need to be stripped clean Let me give you some wins from my life so you can be encouraged You know fasting has helped me remove it from my life. It's helped me remove shitty foods like milk Milk has been killing me cheese killing me, okay? I needed a fast all the way from that shit You know what else carbs? I needed a fast away from carbs cars. What's fucking killing me? Let's get even worse Smoking dude fasting helped me quit smoking Awesome it helped me quit vaping after I quit smoking awesome Fasting helped me remove my dependency on coffee fucking awesome like I wake up and I'm good bro. I'm ready to fucking go You know fasting is help remove bullshit tech. I've had so many fucking websites so many fucking accounts

It's you know like not Instagram, but like so many different accounts all over the place I used to have I remember there was a point in time. I have over a hundred fucking domains Oh The Remove the bullshit remove the technology you don't need LinkedIn you don't need Instagram you don't need Twitter's you don't need Facebook you don't need Any of this stuff. It's none of its real Come back Come back to the real world guys. I want to be there like people People always comment on my Instagram the Bitcoin Lambo they always comment in DM. I damn fuck that's awesome I can show you screenshots because they see me Throwing up on stories that I'm riding the the Lambo mostly I'm riding the fucking radical the race car, right? I mean they What they don't know what what what they don't maybe maybe they

don't realize what's behind it? What's behind it is I want to be in the real world? I? Want to interact in the real world the digital world man guys. It's great. No, but it ain't real It ain't real The three major benefits of Fasting for me now you can take it as you want, but you should fast food for sure fast away from food for sure But the three benefits of fasting for me in this technology world where our habits or technologies are Abitites are so easily satiated and they end up controlling us is number one I will be mastered by nothing. I want to be in control of myself number two It freshens the senses it makes me sensitive to myself and the world It allows me to refocus my priorities in number three. It helps me remove bullshit from my life God, that's

the three benefits of fasting for me in this technology world where our habits or technologies are Abitites are so easily satiated and they end up controlling us is number one I will be mastered by nothing. I want to be in control of myself number two It freshens the senses it makes me sensitive to myself and the world It allows me to refocus my priorities in number three. It helps me remove bullshit from my life God, that's the best part a simpler life is the life without bullshit So here's the question for you guys what do you need to fast from what bullshit? Do you need to get away from? Start small make the time box small But trust me having a discipline of fasting away from the bullshit of this world You'll be a better human for it This is Peter the Bitcoin Lambo if

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About the Creator

This video is part of a library of 780+ episodes published by Peter Saddington on staas.fund. Peter is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist (StaaS Fund, RegD 506B), and AI practitioner who has trained 17,000+ professionals in agile and AI methodologies. He bought Bitcoin at $2.52 in 2011, built 4 autonomous AI agents (the Council of Dogelord), and operates 10+ websites with zero employees. His AI Workshop has been attended by Fortune 500 teams, and his newsletter "The Agile VC" reaches thousands of subscribers weekly. Peter holds 3 Master's degrees (Divinity, Computer Science, Computational Operations Research) from institutions including Georgia Tech.

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