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If you listen closely to the words people say, you can learn a lot about what’s going on inside their heads. Your own words also tell a tale. By listening to and analyzing the words you use on a regular basis, you can learn to stop unconsciously programming yourself to have limited performance.

1. Need

Parents use the word “need” with kids all the time: “We need to go, so you need to wear a coat.”

The truth is, you didn’t need to go and you didn’t need to wear a coat. Your mother may have wanted to leave and you were simply going to be cold if you didn’t have a coat on, but “need” isn’t the right word. By telling the unintelligent animal inside your head that you need something when the reality is that you just want it, you end up turning a desire for something into a straight survival issue for your primitive brain to deal with.

2. Can't

“Can’t” is perhaps the most destructive word you use every day. Using the word “can’t” means there is absolutely no possible way and you are robbing yourself of your power and crushing innovative thinking. When you say, “I can’t do that,” you are telling your nervous system that there is simply no possible way to do it and setting yourself up for learned helplessness. What you actually mean is one of three things: 1) You would like some help doing it, 2) You don’t have the tools to do it, or 3) You don’t know how to do it. Given enough resources, it’s highly unlikely that you actually can’t do it.

To your conscious brain, it is obvious that when you say “you can’t,” you really mean you need something else to make it happen. This isn’t so obvious to your unconscious brain because this part of your brain doesn’t understand context; yet, it is still listening to the words you are using. When you speak, other people’s unconscious brains are also listening. This miscommunication between the two parts of your brain creates confusion and subtle stress. Use words that mean the same thing to both your conscious brain and your unconscious brain, and you will be a calmer and more empowered person.

3. Bad

This is another one of those words that is put in our heads before we really have a chance to think about it. In reality, very few things are actually that “bad,” and declaring that they are “bad” is a judgmental viewpoint. By forcing yourself into a binary judgment, where something is either good or bad, you limit the scope of your thinking. For instance, you might say: “I was planning a picnic, and now it’s raining, and that’s bad.” By saying this, you automatically kept yourself from thinking about the fact that the rain was putting out a forest fire and ending a drought. It does little service to you to simply decide that something is just good or bad.

4. Try

“Try” is a double-edged sword. On one hand, we want our children to learn something, practice it, and keep “trying.” This is a normal and healthy way to talk to children, but we can do better. This is word is not so Bulletproof because saying “try” presupposes a likelihood of failure. Think about it. If someone says they’re going to try to pick you up at the airport when you land, are you going to count on them doing it? No way. You know that there is a good chance they won’t do it. However, if someone says they are going to pick you up, you can believe it. If you tell yourself that you’re going to try staying on diet or try to read the book, you’ve subconsciously already planned to fail.

Dave Asprey, founder of Bulletproof and author of New York Times bestseller The Bulletproof Diet, is a Silicon Valley investor and technology entrepreneur who spent two decades and over $1 Million to hack his own biology.

Dave lost 100 pounds without counting calories or excessive exercise, used techniques to upgrade his brain and lift his IQ by 20 points, and lowered his biological age while learning to sleep more efficiently in less time. Learning to do these seemingly impossible things transformed him into a better entrepreneur, a better husband, and a better father.

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From private brain EEG facilities hidden in a Canadian forest to remote monasteries in Tibet, from Silicon Valley to the Andes, Dave Asprey used hacking techniques and tried everything on himself, obsessively focused on discovering the answers to this one persistent question:

What are the simplest things you can do to be better at everything?

What emerged is the idea of becoming Bulletproof: the state of high performance where you take control of and improve your biochemistry, your body, and your mind so they work in unison, helping you execute at levels far beyond what you’d expect, without burning out, getting sick, or allowing stress to control your decisions. It used to take a lifetime to radically rewire the human body and mind this way, if you were lucky enough to even know it was possible. Technology has changed the rules

Dave founded Bulletproof to make these breakthroughs – and the body and brain you deserve — easily available to you in your everyday life.

When Dave Asprey started his Bulletproof Radio podcast more than five years ago, he sought out influencers in an array of disciplines, from biochemists toiling in unknown laboratories to business leaders changing the world to mediation masters discovering inner peace. His guests were some of the top performing humans in the world, people who had changed their areas of study or even pioneered entirely new fields.

Dave wanted to know: What did they have in common? What mattered most to them? What made them so successful—and what made them tick? At the end of each interview, Dave asked the same question: “What are your top three recommendations for people who want to perform better at being human?”

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