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Ty Guy
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Coming alive
- If a “meaningless” job enables you to accomplish some other goal that’s meaningful to you, it becomes a meaningful job
- You can spend 20 years feeling like you wasted your life, but if you’re able to somehow get healthy after all that, your sudden ability to enjoy the present moment can erase decades of regret. The past can be rewritten, or at least perceived from a different angle
- Sometimes I like to fuck my life up for a couple years just to see if I got another comeback in me
- In college I thought I was dumb but I was actually just inflamed. If you have moments of brilliance that’s your actual intelligence level, it’s probably just shrouded in brain fog and stress hormones a lot of the time
- Efforts that invest in your future—decorating your space, buying clothes u like, practicing a skill, taking care of/building your body, figuring out a health problem, socializing, getting organized—signal to your psyche that you have a future to look forward to, making it true
- The healthier you get, the more fun you can have. Not just physical capabilities, but your brain’s capacity to experience fun
My current health plan is basically drink a bunch of milk and nap as much as I can- No amount of psychedelics will impact your perspective on life as much as experiencing a lot of (internal) pain, or wanting something so bad and not getting it
- As your personality comes back after years of dormancy, you notice it little by little. First you might make yourself laugh with your own thoughts, then you might feel unexpected bliss sitting on the couch one afternoon, then you might feel a wave of pleasant nostalgia when you
- If you clear the brain fog from chronic inflammation you’ll regain access to memories you’d forgotten
- Don’t forget about the rats in a bucket that could keep treading water for over 24 hours if they’d had just a single previous experience of being saved
- Dating when you don’t love your own life is kinda like taking a trip when you don’t have a home
