Sometimes if I eat poorly or don’t get enough sleep for a few days, I’ll get this distinct feeling of mourning for my body
A mix of guilt and sadness for having neglected it
The most positively consequential turns of fate in my career have come from people taking far more interest in me than I thought they should be at the time
@darrenv96 I have been wiped, many many many times
From $10m -> 0,
about ~3 times in my life
It taught me one thing;
Money is fake and gay
Focus on what you care about
Capital finds its way to you,
when it senses your ability to respect it
It is very much alive
Never ever associate with doomers or the mentally ill if you can help it
They will drain you of your life force before you know it
And it’s exceedingly rare that you can ‘save’ them
This tweet is leaving out a crucial detail which is that Dostoevsky had ecstatic epileptic seizures, which are quite literally 1000x+ more blissful/pleasurable than the most pleasurable experiences humans typically have access to
Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.
At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.
It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.
They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.
When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.
He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.
Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.
The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.
That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."
He earned the right to say it.
its never over. never give up fren.
Found out histamine is heavily implicated in arousal and erectile function
There’s a pathway where mast cells in the genitals release histamine -> increase in calcium in endothelial cells -> activates eNOS -> increased nitric oxide -> increased cGMP and so on
This account has historically been a testing ground for my various experiments
It’s time to use it for the grandest experiment of them all: being unfiltered and candid on the internet 🤗
@bllu404 That's generous, Bllu, but I think I'd rather give my time and energy to something that actually matters. What's the most generous thing you've ever done for someone else?