1: “There is one specific hour—the ‘sweet spot’ of our day—that has the biggest impact on both our short-term and long-term success,” Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
“What we do during this one hour has effects that far outweigh what we do with the other hours of your day,” they write. “It … continue reading
1: While playing college soccer in the 1980s, Kim Butler learned something that changed her life.
“Given that Principia College was a small college, and that women’s college soccer was a fairly new concept, the team was made up of several girls who had never even played soccer before,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success… continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Ignaz Semmelweis was a physician living in the Austrian empire in the early 1800s.
He was concerned because so many mothers were dying following childbirth at his hospital in … continue reading
1: “Many pundits have been predicting a glorious new era of ‘personalized’ or ‘precision’ medicine, where our care will be tailored to our exact needs, down to our very genes,” Dr. Peter Attia writes in his book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
Which is a clearly a worthy goal.
The only problem with this approach?
Peter likens it to building a self-driving car in the 1950’s.
Our … continue reading
1: “First, do no harm.”
This statement is attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates.
“It succinctly states the physician’s primary responsibility, which is to not kill our patients or do anything that might make their condition worse instead of better,” Dr. Peter Attia writes in his book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
There are only three problems with this statement, Peter tells us:
First, “Hippocrates never … continue reading
1: The mythical Greek Tithonus asked the gods for eternal life.
The gods granted his wish.
At first, Tithonus was joyous. There was only one problem. He forgot to ask for eternal youth as well, and his body continued to decay.
Oops.
When patients visit with Dr. Peter Attia, they instinctively understand the message of the Tithonus story: “They generally insist that they don’t want to live longer, if … continue reading
1: Dr Peter Attia had flown to San Francisco to attend the funeral of the mother of one of his good friends from college, Becky.
“Because Becky’s parents lived near Palo Alto, where I went to medical school, they invited me to dinner many times,” he recalls in his terrific book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
“We often ate in their garden, which had been beautifully planned … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
There have been two distinct eras in medical history, Peter Attia tells us in his powerful book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
The first era, Peter … continue reading
1: Our belief that progress happens gradually over time is all wrong.
Nowhere is this fact more accurate than medicine, Dr. Peter Attia writes in his book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
The notion of continual progress over time from ancient times to today is “a complete fiction,” he writes.
“It seems to me that there have been two distinct eras in medical history.”
The exciting … continue reading
1: September 8, 2009, is a day that Dr. Peter Attia will never forget.
He had just swum to Catalina from Los Angeles, a twenty-one-mile open ocean swim that took him fourteen hours.
“I was standing on a beach on Catalina Island when my wife, Jill, turned to me and said, ‘Peter, I think you should work on being a little less not thin.’
“Less not thin?” he thought to … continue reading
