001: Ashton Eaton

This week we speak with world-record holding, back-to-back Olympic Gold Medalist for decathlon, engineer and friend, Ashton Eaton about his hopes for the Zone.

This week we speak with world-record holding, back-to-back Olympic Gold Medalist for decathlon, engineer and friend, Ashton Eaton about his hopes for the Zone. Information on texts referenced can be found below:

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

• Ashton’s 2018 InterPlanetary Festival Appearance, “Living in Space”

• Ashton’s 2019 InterPlanetary Festival Appearance, “Zen and the Art of Space Exploration”

• Sam Harris podcast interview with David Krakauer

• General Systems Theory - Ludwig von Bertalanffy

• Limits to Human Performance Research at the Santa Fe Institute

• Ursula LeGuin’s Rocannon’s World (pdf)

• Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game

• Arrival (trailer)

• Contact (trailer)