Have you ever considered that you can build physical and emotional resilience by tossing extremely heavyweights at someone? Well, guess what, now you can.

Join Archipelago member & NYT best-selling author, Scott Carney, for a flow-state experience. Carney's research and personal experiences have taken him from Stanford Neuroscience Lab to the Peruvian Amazon on the quest to discover how humans can reimagine their relationship with extreme stress. In his latest book, The Wedge, he seeks to understand the automatic physical responses to extreme physical stress, and how we can intervene, adjust and allow ourselves the opportunities to not only build physical resilience but emotional resilience as well.

“We need to move outside of our comfort zones. In Latin, there's this idea of memento mori, and it's something that we've lost in this culture. And instead, we avoid it. And in your nervous system, avoidance of death, you know, is good, right? That's what allows us to pass on our genes. But ignoring it, it makes us not take risks. And if you don't take risks, you don't grow and you can't find out what you are capable of. " -Scott Carney