In this episode, I speak with Mads Friis, a personal growth and high performance mentor. We discuss habits for top performance, Nordic Biohacking and creating a life that you love from the ground up.
From playing different sports at a high level to discovering books by the Dalai Lama and Anthony Robbins, Mads has always been interested in personal growth and high performance. On this journey, he completed different studies and degrees in Psychology at Copenhagen Business School and Harvard University. In his research, Mads found that many of the resources focus 80% on the problems we are facing and only 20% on the solutions. He is on the mission to flip this statistic around to help more people.
One of Mads’ biggest passions is building health, performance, and wellbeing-related ventures and projects. Also, exploring what helps individuals feel extraordinary - perform better, live a more meaningful life, and be happy. Mads has co-built 3 successful, impact-driven ventures with KRING. A few years ago he started Growth Island, a podcast on health, performance, business and life's bigger mysteries. health and human wellbeing, where he interviewed nearly 100 world’s experts - doctors, scientists, psychologists, and entrepreneurs.
With his management consulting experience from Deloitte, Mads started actively training and consulting startups globally - he worked with +150 startups from all the continents, guiding them through the business model validation and preparation for scale.
We go deep into the psychology behind habits, why they matter, how we can build new ones and remove negative ones, as well as how to bring dopamine into any habit to make it more rewarding. We then dive into Nordic Biohacking and how we can use it to mitigate the unnatural world we currently live in. This is a key episode to listen to if you want to increase your performance, full of practical and easily implementable tips!
Episode highlights include:
- When we continuously do, it's who we become
- A habit reward system can be as simple as high-fiving yourself or a pat on the back
- Remain focused on what you can do something about, and don't worry about what you can't
- Not all biohacks are necessary - choose what feels right for you
- Do not discount ancestral wisdom (like meditation, grounding, cold water therapy) when it comes to creating your life.
To connect further with Mads, check out his website Growth Island, and find him on Instagram and LinkedIn.
P.S. The two Growth Island podcast episodes mentioned in this interview were #76 with Milla Titova and #24 with Dr Scott Sherr.
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