Wim Hof

When I get people, hundreds of people, doesn't matter their age, profession, background, even conditions, in four days time, just exposing these people to environmental forces like cold and breathing, they come together.

And the last day they go climb a mountain, never been in the cold before, but they all do it in their shorts and bikinis outside for four or five hours in freezing temperatures, and they feel humanity.

They feel great.

They feel purpose, a depth of spirituality, which goes beyond what we think.

it feels and that brings the people all so together that they get lifelong friends just in four days yeah yeah well you know there's there's something to be said for that because you know doing hard things together um really brings a bond and and i i agree with you you know um

We are so starved for connection, community, and purpose.

And the digital age has made us more isolated and more disconnected.

We knew in the mortality space, and I talk about this all the time, that if you want to cut a human being's life expectancy in half, and I mean in half, at any age, you put them in isolation.

Broken heart syndrome in the elderly is a very real thing.

married 50 years, 60 years, spouse passes, the other one goes quickly.

It's very real.

It's immediate isolation.

Death, I suffered it.

Yeah.

Broken heart syndrome.

Oh, yeah.

I know you lost your wife.

But I could not stop.

I could not stop because I had four children.

Four children.