We don’t have any footage of Beethoven or Mozart writing their masterpieces. We do, however, have Paul McCartney writing Get Back. And that’s even better.
Larry Bird made passes other people couldn’t have even imagined, much less executed flawlessly in real time. Enjoy this beautiful minute of basketball brilliance.
The shit you learn as a kid that turns out to really matter is never what they claim it will be. For instance, I barely even remember algebra and who cares. However, “righty tighty, lefty loosey” has proven pretty goddamn useful through the years.
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu
You shouldn't "identify" with your beliefs. When you do that, challenges to your beliefs are wrongfully viewed as personal attacks. All beliefs should be held tentatively, and always open to revision.
I often feel like a 12-year-old boy walking around in a 52-year-old man costume while hoping no one catches on to me. I’m doing surprisingly well for a mental sixth-grader.
I credit my immune system’s strength to having survived drinking out of these motherfuckers every day after every kid in my school put their germ-infested lips all over them. I’m unfuckwithable.
Studies show that humans spend only 7.6% of their time outdoors. As a physician, I believe this is the true root ROOT cause of our chronic disease epidemic and declining life span, and not just because of its impact on our chronobiology. Here's why? 👇
When we're outside, we get to observe nature, and we get the opportunity to witness the profound harmony, interconnectedness, and cycles that thread through the natural world.
We see polarities and cycles that surround us to create life, health, and beauty: polarities like sleeping and waking, night and day, cold and hot, male and female, parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system, high and low tide, alkaline and acidic.
We observe cycles like spring to summer to fall to winter, and new moon to first quarter moon to full moon to last quarter moon.
These rhythms surround us in nature, and they are our best teachers in achieving health, because they show us that the world is fundamentally harmonious even when things appear to swing between different states or poles.
But in the modern world, living inside and so separate from nature, we have begun to ignore, fight, or suppress natural polarities and cycles, under the illusion that they are suboptimal and we can outsmart them:
- Through industrial agriculture, we've asked the soil to give us endless summer.
- Through the widespread use of oral hormones for everything from acne to PCOS to contraception, we've trivialized the stunning- and miraculously lifegiving - rhythmicity of women's bodies.
- Through around the clock artificial light, we've created the illusion that we don't need night.
The results haven't been good.
We've have forgotten that we get the best out of ALL natural systems (like nature and the body) not through dominance, oppression, and overworking, but through respect, care, and gentle support.
In our busy, distracted, industrial lives, we've become separate from nature, and therefore we've become fearful and controlling of its natural rhythms and realities.
In that control, we've created a world that is expressly not conducive to human life.
The results? Skyrocketing disease and declining human lifespans, and a mass extinction of other life forms. We are losing our minds (dementia and depression), we are losing our ability to reproduce (rampant infertility), we are attacking ourselves (autoimmune disease), and our hearts are literally broken (heart disease). All of these conditions are rooted in metabolic disease caused by an environment created to ameliorate the illusion of scarcity that can be healed by spending more time with nature.
Metabolic disease is a dimming of our internal life force (ability to create cellular energy).
Our life force is dimmed because we are disconnected from our life source (nature).
Go outside.
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