Lessons Learned Through Pain - Tim Kennedy - #481

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Tim Kennedy. He's a Green Beret, Special Forces sniper, Army Ranger, and a professional MMA fighter. Tim has spent most of his life fighting, whether that's been against kids in kindergarten, Special Forces selection officers, UFC champions, enemy combatants, ISIS, or his own compulsion to make a mess of his life. He's seen his fair share of pain and discovered a lot of insights through it. Expect to learn whether Tim has ever used Brazilian jiu-jitsu in a combat situation, what motivates him to put through the discomfort he's endured, why he refused painkillers throughout his entire MMA career, why he swam a mile out to sea after getting two women pregnant and thinking he had AIDS, and much more. Tim does seem to me like the sort of person that is moving at a million miles an hour. The kind of person that I think is a very, very good example that can be sent out as a scout to work out what it's like to live a very specific type of life and then come back and tell the rest of us. Although you might not want to live the life that he's lived, I think it's difficult to deny that there are interesting lessons that you can take from someone that's been to the extremes of pretty much everything that there is to do. I do appreciate him. I've spent a good bit of time with him since I've been out here in Austin, and every time that I'm with him, I learned something new. So I really hope that you enjoy this one. In other news, this episode is brought to you by 8 Sleep. 30% of people struggle with sleep, and temperature is one of the main causes of poor sleep. At the moment in the US, it is warm. I'm somewhere that has air conditioning, and if you're in the UK, you probably don't, and it's warm. It really does impact my sleep. If I'm too hot, you struggle to fall asleep. Your body actually lowers its core temperature in order for you to get to sleep. However, now I've got an 8 Sleep Pod Pro cover, which means that I have temperature thermoregulation, has dynamic cooling and heating with biometric tracking, can add the cover to any mattress and start sleeping as cool as 55 degrees Fahrenheit or as hot as 110 degrees Fahrenheit, which is cold and hot in British money. Temperature of the cover will adjust each side of the bed based on your sleep stages, biometrics and bedroom temperature, reacting intelligently to create the optimal sleeping environment. This thing is wild, right? It can track your HRV. It can track the stages of sleep that you're going through and then it adjusts the temperature of your bed and what is going on in order for you to have a better night's sleep. So if you want to upgrade your sleep, head to 8sleep.com/modernwisdom. That's E I G H T sleep.com/modernwisdom.
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