Dave Asprey

Some people I know, they do a lot of their work in the world when they're asleep.

They're doing meditation stuff.

So I would just say...

If you want to live a long time, or you're going to be really powerful in the world, you've got to access all of your abilities.

Not just the rational ones, but having rational abilities is really good.

When people are traumatized and stressed, we think.

Thinking is very useful.

It's unique in humans, the way we can do it.

It's just very slow, and it's very subject to bias.

Because these little mitochondria that really control our bodies, they allocate power in a meaningful way.

And you have about 20 different ways to solve a problem in your brain.

And they're going to pick the lowest power problem-solving algorithm.

And they're going to do that based on how much power they have and how safe they feel.

And it takes a long time to really analyze and think about and ponder.

Or you could just say, it feels like this.

However your body decides to let you think is going to feel like it's real.

This is why we get these stupid things like,

If cortisol is bad, then you should have zero cortisol.

That will kill you.

Or if eating too much food makes you fat, eating no food will make you thin.