The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Akshay Nanavati: Why You Have to Go Into Hell to Come Out the Other Side

Akshay Nanavati is a former Marine who served in Iraq, came home with survivor's guilt and a bottle-of-vodka-a-day drinking problem, and now skis across Antarctica and sits in week-long darkness retreats on purpose. He explains why he thinks pain is the most effective driver of change available to a human being, why post-traumatic stress is not the same thing as post-traumatic stress disorder, and how he decided when to quit an expedition after losing a fingertip to frostbite. The conversation also covers how to make the delayed consequences of ordinary bad habits feel immediate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.