Tom Bilyeu

And since you told yourself that you're a world-class wrestler, now all of a sudden it's like, who am I?

You know what I mean?

It all comes crumbling down.

So you have to be so careful.

The only anti-fragile identity I've ever heard, and I'm super open, but the only anti-fragile identity, meaning the more you attack it,

the better it becomes that I've come across is the learner.

Because now if somebody says you're a moron, then you go, in what way?

Tell me, because now you're gonna pull the scales away from my eyes and I'm gonna learn it, right?

Because I value myself for that.

And you repeat it enough, because the idea behind repetition

is to make it an easier thought for your brain to think.

Your brain is extraordinarily stingy with calories.

You have this three-pound thing that burns 20% or 25% of your calories.

Now, the reason you lose muscle mass if you don't use it is your body's like, I can't carry anything that is metabolically expensive.

So we have this insane ability to gain and lose muscle.

Because if you gain muscle, you better need it because you have to feed it.

So if you don't need it, boom, the body's going to get rid of it.

So if your brain is that calorically active, you've got to imagine your brain is looking for ways to optimize thinking, to actually make it calorically less expensive.

And so what it does is it creates these default mode networks.

Neurons that fire together, wire together.