Andy Stumpf

I would have just continued to do riskier and riskier behaviors.

But at the end, I feel like it lowers it and just strips away the BS stress and makes you less likely to invest in those other potentially nonsense, high risk behaviors.

I have no ability to describe it whatsoever.

And again, I didn't realize what that headspace was giving me while I was in the military.

I knew something was missing after I had gotten out.

And I think a lot of guys find themselves in that kind of abyss of how do I replicate this?

Spoiler alert, you can't really, and they have to deal with that and work their way through that.

And I'm not recommending that wingsuit skydiving or base jumping is the path for guys getting out.

And I specifically wrote about this.

I've seen people who can do this in art, getting lost in creating something or yoga or meditation or ice bath or sauna, or I found a lot of it in the ability to detach and be in the moment in jujitsu.

Even though it's totally artificial violence, you're in the moment because it sucks when your friend chokes you because you want to choke your friend, obviously.

But you can find it.

It doesn't have to be prescriptive.

But if you can find your way there, I don't care that nobody can describe what it is.

I am here to tell you it will change your life if you can find your way into that space.

It's like it pulls you into that.

It allows you to sink into those things and digest better, to think better.

Yeah, the clarity of thought was just, and it would change how I thought about an argument or a conversation.

And it would allow me to look at it from a different perspective.

And I have no idea why that was the case, but I agree with what you're saying.