Paul Stamets

The nicest people.

Alex is like, he's a role model for being just a kind, nice, sweet person.

Yeah, just doing it.

Pressfield talked about that in The War of Art.

Have you read that book?

No, no.

I've got copies of it.

He sent me a whole box because back in Los Angeles, I used to keep a stack of them on the table and hand them out to people.

It's all about creating things and resistance.

And this thing that we all have where we're reluctant to sit down and actually do the work.

But if you could just commit, and he calls it the muse.

And many, many creative people over time have called upon the muse and this concept.

And it sounds like airy-fairy to a lot of people.

But if you believe in it and if you actually do that thing where you call upon the muse, it actually works.

Yeah.

So whether or not it's real is irrelevant.

Yeah, I can't think like that.

Yeah, whether it's internal or external, whatever it is, you can have a voice.

I think there's a psychedelic revolution that's happening all over the planet.

I think it's happened over the last 20 years, and I think it's happened because of the Internet.