Aubrey Marcus Quotes Page 4

“Sugar is the biggest antinutrient of them all.”

“The best timing for bread is dinner, after your glycogen stores have been depleted by exercise, and you're about to head into the winter of your day... sleep. So if bread and butter is your thing, do it the right way, with grass-fed butter on sprouted or sourdough.”

“The first thing you do when you come home from work, or emerge from the 'productive' part of the day, is reset.”

“The general rule with any intoxicating substance, particularly alcohol, is to use the least amount necessary to achieve the desired effect. This has a couple advantages: 1) it's cost-effective, and 2) it limits any negative side effects like toxicity to the liver or lungs. In short, you want to be your own cheap date, and the best time for that is post workout.”

“The key to alcohol is only having a little. Not necessarily because I'm worried that you will become an alcoholic; it's more because the last thing you want to do is feel like your owning this day at the expense of the next one. Then you're not really owning the day at all, you're overspending and borrowing from tomorrow.”

“The training pyramid – your ideal 50 minute workout:
1. Durability (mobility + flexibility) - 15 minutes.
2. Cardio - 10 minutes.
3. Muscular endurance - 8 minutes.
4. Strength - 5 minutes.
5. Power - 3 minutes.”

“There is an old saying, attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, that to be healthy you must chew your drink, and drink your food.”

“There is no amount of work you will do that will finally make the work go away, and definitely no amount of money you can make that will solve all your problems. And the sooner you realize that, the sooner you can look for happiness in places where it might actually be found.”

“Time is the wrong metric to use when we evaluate work. Because it’s not just about how much time you work, it’s about how effectively you use that time.”

“To live one day well is the same as to live ten thousand days well. To master twenty-four hours is to master your life.”

“To own your life, you gotta own the day.”

“To wait for the external world to change before you alleviate your stress is a fool’s errand.”

“Visualize that you wake up with purpose and clarity. You push yourself against resistance. You take control of your diet and supplementation. You turn dead time into alive time. You work effectively and aren’t afraid to power down the engines to rest. You train your body into a durable, capable machine. You connect with yourself, your friends, and the universe. You turn sex into an adventure of pleasure. You go to sleep with a mission, and actually sleep.

Imagine what a year of living like that has done for you. Walk in the shoes of that new person. See yourself through that person’s eyes. Look in the mirror at that body. Maybe the circles under your eyes are gone, and that stubborn weight has lifted – mentally and physically. See what has happened in your career, and in your family. That person is you, on the other side of resistance. If you see it clearly enough, it will be done.”

“We are built for work. It is never going to go away, nor would most of us ever want it to. It is part of the balance of life, and however you define it, you will always have work to do. To derive as much meaning, pleasure, and value out of this inescapable part of life as possible, you need to know your mission -- whether it's related to the work itself or not. Then you need to own your workspace, and work as effectively as possible. Because what makes work feel less like labor is when you know why you are doing it, and how to do it well.”

“We have to transcend the tendency to place all of our effort on one thing at a time, instead of one day at a time.”

“We've all heard the expression 'You are what you eat.' Well that's literally true. You didn't grow from magic, or because that's just what babies do. You grew because you ate stuff. But that's only half the story, because the stuff you ate, grew because it ate (and metabolized) stuff too. You aren't just what you eat, you're also what you eat ate.”

“Well begun is half done.”

“Whether in love, or in business, or in health, if we don't feel like we deserve a positive outcome, or even worse, like we deserve to be punished, we will manifest that outcome with the subconscious choices we make.”

“With an estimated 75% of the world's food produced from only twelve plant and five animal species, the lack of biodiversity in our diet is failing to support our 'second brain'.”

“You are not rewarded for the comfortable choice.”

“You know what's over that mountain? More f*cking mountains.”

“You shouldn't count how many hours of sleep you get in a night, but rather how many ninety-minute sleep cycles you get in a week. Thirty-five cycles should be your target.”

“Finding a way to get still is one of the most essential things we can do as humans.”

“I think as you go over time and you really understand who you are and you realize that vulnerability isn’t actually vulnerability, it’s just being human. And I think like our ego wants to project this idea of perfection, this kind of bulletproof exterior, 'I got it all figured out', but nobody has it all figured out.”

“Nobody has it all figured out, but the ego wants to project this idea of perfection but it’s not true.”

“Salt may be bad for the heart if you have a really bad heart condition because what salt is going to do is just it’s going to make your blood a little thicker because you’re going to store more liquid because the sodium interaction with the liquid so you’re going to actually retain a little bit more water but really what that means is you’re more hydrated.

So, for anyone who’s actually healthy and not worried about squeezing blood through a clogged artery or something like that, salt is actually highly beneficial and one of the things that allow us to move and function and feed our adrenal system. And like, we’re basically a saltwater organism and too often we’re not supplying enough salt.”

“The circadian rhythm is really this kind of night and day clock that regulates so many different things in our body, our appetite, our hormones, our energy, our wakefulness, our sleepiness. And so, really the body’s designed to wake up with the light and go to sleep with the dark.

We’re not nocturnal animals by nature but we live inside houses which mimic like a cave-like environment and then we can go straight from our house to our car which is covered and straight from the car to the office which is covered. So, we might not actually be able to expose ourselves to the kind of light that’ll really make us feel awake and alert like our primitive man would’ve.”

“We are energetic beings. We require fuel and that fuel allows us to do absolutely everything and the input that we take in is like the gasoline for the car but a lot of times we’re taking in the wrong really shitty type of gasoline that ultimately creates different buildups, it creates different adaptations that are disadvantageous. So, what’s the absolute best fuel source for a human being? And that’s what I really wanted to look at. And I can tell you, it’s not a bunch of f*cking sugar. Like that is not the fuel source that this human organism thrives on.”

“We as humans thrive under conditions of acute stress. So stress that happens relatively fast and relatively temporarily and that can be imagined like training in the gym, a good, hard 30 minute of training like that is acute stress. The body will go through that and then it’ll take some time to recover and then it will adapt, and it will be better. Hormonally, it’ll be better. Musculoskeletally, it will be better, endorphinally, emotionally, there’s great science on the emotion of exercise and the psychological experiences you get as well as the physiological, that is like an ideal form of hormetic stress is called which is like a positive acute stress for the body working out. And there are other forms of that that are available and two of those are using temperature so either like extreme cold or extreme heat for short periods of time.”

“We’ll lose up to a pound of water overnight just from the water vapors and then if we’re in really big blankets or something, we may sweat even up to another pound so we’re dropping like a lot of weight. That’s why we’re lighter in the morning because moist air goes out, less moist air comes in and then all of a sudden, we lose a lot of water. So, the first thing that’s really important to do is hydrate.”