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The Wedge
- Evolution, Consciousness, Stress, and the Key to Human Resilience
- Narrated by: Scott Carney
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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From the New York Times best-selling author of What Doesn't Kill Us
"Crazy good writing." (Wim Hof, "The Iceman", Dutch extreme athlete)
Thrive or die: That's the rule of evolution. Despite this brutal logic, some species have learned to survive in even the most hostile conditions. Others couldn't - and perished. While incremental genetic adaptations hone the physiology of nearly every creature on this planet, there's another evolutionary force that is just as important: the power of choice. In this explosive investigation into the limits of endurance, journalist Scott Carney discovers how humans can wedge control over automatic physiological responses into the breaking point between stress and biology. We can reclaim our evolutionary destiny.
In his New York Times best seller, What Doesn't Kill Us, Carney submerged himself in ice water and learned breathing techniques from daredevil fitness guru Wim Hof. It gave him superhuman levels of endurance and quieted a persistent autoimmune illness. At the core of those methods is a technique called The Wedge that can give a person an edge in just about any situation.
In this thrilling exploration of the limits and potential of the human body, Carney searches the globe for people who understand the subtle language of how the body responds to its environment. He confronts fear at a cutting-edge neuroscience laboratory at Stanford, and learns about flow states by tossing heavy weights with partners. He meets masters of mental misdirection in the heat of a Latvian sauna, experiments with breathing routines that bring him to the cusp of transcendence, searches his mind in sensory deprivation tanks, and ultimately ends up in the Amazon jungle with a shaman who promises either madness or universal truth. All of this in service of trying to understand what we're really capable of. What can we accomplish when we there are no true human limits?
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- Árón Ó Gamhna
- 17-05-20
Fascinating read
I loved it. A fsscinating insight into different wedge techniques that Scott has explored from first discovering the WHM.
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- Ian Burgess
- 07-06-20
Fascinating
I heard the authors interview on Mysterious Universe Podcast and was hooked on immediately.
What I didn’t expect was being an athletics coach this brings some interesting breathing techniques to try, great book, definitely worth a try.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-01-22
amazing
loved it! great style, narration, and plenty of wisdom and science in this book. highly recommend
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- tanataff
- 28-06-20
it amazes me what the human body can go through
I listened to this whilst in my sauna after doing a cold plunge for 10 minutes, what a journey Scott Carney took, some of things he did had me on the edge of my seat, I will listen to this again
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- Daniel Caixinha
- 05-05-23
Another amazing book by Scott Carney
Another amazing book by Scott Carney. x d f n f f V d
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- Rossi
- 18-08-22
Epic...
Loved this book. As always an insight to what the body and mind can achieve when we explore our limits.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-12-22
great reading!
This one will be forever downloaded in my library, as will What doesn't kill us will be.
great hearing Scott tell his stories and share his thoughts about the wedge. will go out there and try to find my own, in my own way after this great book.
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- Alexander e
- 19-11-21
Good chapters and average chapters
What doesn’t kill us was an excellent book. I felt this would follow a similar path. A lot of what Scott talks about in the book is focused on his personal experiences rather than science or things that can reliably transfer some benefit to my life. This may be his aim, but that effects my review.
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- MA
- 03-02-21
Disappointing
Enjoyed Scott’s book ‘What doesn’t kill us’ so thought this would be as good. It’s not.
Fluffed out with tedious filler dragging descriptions on way too long. Poor narration like a child reading in class. The books points could be summarised in one sentence, “push your physical and mental boundaries to stimulate growth”. Nothing new here.
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- T.G. Court
- 21-06-20
Promised a lot but has little substance
Starts out talking about VR headsets and throwing kettle bells. lacks direction & jumps around with little substance or takeaway messages
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