![]() It was completely amazing.”īut not everyone is euphoric. “I’m a physician and if somebody told me this would happen today I would think they’re crazy. “My wife gave birth to two children not long ago and I can really say I felt the birthing process in my gut,” he says. It felt like a huge healing.”Īnother participant, Nick, is similarly delirious. It was a complete loss of control, death, I don’t know. “I had this intense feeling I did a somersault over or through myself. “I left my body,” Sequoia tells me afterwards, his speech slow and slurred. Who are you? What are you?” urges Hof, before stepping off-stage to attend to Wayne Sequoia, whose limbs are jerking so violently it rouses me from my stupor. ![]() Around me, people are writhing on their mats, some weeping or howling like wolves. Soon the effect is so intoxicating that the muscles in my forearms contract, my arms raise involuntarily from my chest and my fingers curl into claws. Nick (above) reacts during the breathing exercise at the Wim Hof Method event. ![]() It was a complete loss of control, death, I don’t know Wayne Sequoia I did a somersault over or through myself. The idea is to mimic the natural gasping reflex we experience when we enter cold environments, thereby decreasing the amount of CO 2 in our bodies. Every so often we hold our breath for as long as we can. Over a period of 30 minutes, Hof instructs us to fill our lungs rapidly before emptying them passively, in a fashion developed from an ancient Tibetan technique, Tummo. “To me it was like being an ordinary person and suddenly realising that I can be a superhero, too.”īreathing is one of the three main pillars of the Wim Hof Method, alongside cold exposure and commitment. “I first saw Wim on YouTube and he said, ‘anything inside us is within our reach’ and ‘whatever limitations we set ourselves, it’s all bullshit’,” Radecki recalls. Among them are yoga teachers, life coaches, cold-water swimmers, medical professionals and those, such as Tomasz Radecki from Poland, who have simply been inspired by Hof’s message of hope. Fully in, fully out,” cries Hof from the stage, as more than 700 people hyperventilate in unison. It’s 24 hours earlier, and I am lying on a yoga mat at the nearby Roundhouse under a haze of purple lights, breathing intently. “No, no, it’s still cold,” he assures me. ![]() “Is this cheating?” I ask Hof, who is already topless. I sheepishly turn towards the lifeguard’s hut to see today’s temperature scrawled on the chalkboard: “7C,” it says. I was told by one enthusiast that between 0 and 5C is considered cold, “but if it gets up to six you’re not ice swimming”. There is no fuller approach to living.As I stand on the jetty looking out across the pond – the bright spring sunshine flaring off the water’s surface – I’m concerned about the water temperature. Jack defies any simple label or categorization as he has such synthetic and integrative thinking that is coupled with the practical capacity to bring forth new innovations to make the world a better place. Our discussion of the concept behind moonshots and the advent of the X Prize is not to be missed. Jack’s vision for quantum computing is as hopeful as it is inspiring, and will likely argument solutions to the “Grand Challenges” facing humanity today. It can serve as a textbook for STEM majors, or physics grad students (augmenting Mike and Ike’s textbook on quantum computing and quantum information), or computer science grad students and it can serve as a primer for non-quantum computing experts who are software engineers, physicists, engineering and business folks, and for independent study. In this episode we do a deep dive into his new book, Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach, which has been adopted for a number of courses. Jack and I first connected 20 years back (gosh!) in Davos via the World Economic Forum, having been invited to be members of the group Global Leaders of Tomorrow. Jack Hidary has been a successful serial technology entrepreneur and is a regular guest on Bloomberg, Fox Business, and CNBC, as well as a frequent keynote speaker, having presented at the business schools of Yale and Columbia, and at TEDx.
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