Jason Silva: Overcoming Anxiety and Finding Flow

08/09/2025 52 min
Jason Silva: Overcoming Anxiety and Finding Flow

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Episode Synopsis

Emmy-nominated host of Brain Games, the highest-rated show in National Geographic’s history, Jason Silva is a masterful content creator. Prepare to experience the ecstasy of flow as Jason unveils the paradigm-shifting philosophies that so beautifully encapsulate the agony and ecstasy of the human experience in this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu.



Original air date: 2-7-17



SHOW NOTES

Tom and Jason share their enthusiasm to celebrate those who inspired them [2:55]

Jason talks about artistic interpretation and subjective experience [5:24]

Tom and Jason bridge the coauthored narrative of life with the malleability of the past [7:01]

Jason describes the thrill of the existential chase to experience cognitive orgasm [9:35]

Tom and Jason discuss the rapture and power of communicating feeling [12:01]

Jason talks about synthesizing complicated ideas into a “flow.” [14:17]

Jason reveals how he overcame introversion, anxiety, and fear and stabilized inspiration. [18:34]

Tom and Jason discuss hunger and why we are insatiable wanting machines [23:23]

Tom and Jason talk about creativity as a form of magic and leveraging paradox [30:08]

Tom and Jason discuss the pandemics of the body and mind [34:54]

Jason describes feeling the power to do good [44:23]



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