Annoying to see ppl desperately searching for spiritual practices to be happy when they haven’t addressed poor sleep, they eat like shit, and they don’t have an exercise routine

“We all know plenty of achievers who are miserable—high-performing, well-known people who are unutterably miserable. The question of, ‘How can that be?’ is the question I’m incredibly interested in these days.” - Tim Ferriss

The pressure to perform and live up to the expectations of others is not a new social phenomenon — nor a bad one. **^^But the way it manifests at the internet’s global scale increases its intensity tenfold — especially for young people. The goal is no longer to simply live up to the high expectations of your parents and peers — online you could be ... See more

Because here’s the deal — if we “hustled” and climbed that big mountain and “crushed” all of our goals and made our big awesome vision board a reality, and we still found ourselves feeling trapped, drained, isolated, bored, or stressed out, we’d have to wonder… “What the hell is this shit? What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I be happy?” As we’ve discu

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Don’t be like me. When you feel existential angst ask: • “How is my sleep?” • “How is my gut?” • “Do I just need to poop?” You might just need a snack

Just realized I don't really talk about psychedelics anymore because I learned to meditate (and I use that term loosely—what I'm referring to is actually more like a cluster of skills that can be summed up as "sink into and trust my felt senses, which when listened to carefully, reveal vital information about how I take in the world and feed it thr... See more