Pieter Levels

But I was very strange outcast as well. And I'm more adaptable to normie now. You learned it. Yeah. After 30s, you know, you're like, yeah.

Yeah. Man, I feel so good. You start as an outcast, but the more you work on yourself, the less like shit you have. You kind of start becoming more normie because you become more chill with yourself and more happy. And it kind of makes you uninteresting, right? Yes.

Yeah. Man, I feel so good. You start as an outcast, but the more you work on yourself, the less like shit you have. You kind of start becoming more normie because you become more chill with yourself and more happy. And it kind of makes you uninteresting, right? Yes.

Yeah. Man, I feel so good. You start as an outcast, but the more you work on yourself, the less like shit you have. You kind of start becoming more normie because you become more chill with yourself and more happy. And it kind of makes you uninteresting, right? Yes.

Like the most, the crazy people are always the most interesting. If you've solved your internal struggles and your therapy and stuff, and you kind of become kind of, you know, it's not so interesting anymore, maybe.

Like the most, the crazy people are always the most interesting. If you've solved your internal struggles and your therapy and stuff, and you kind of become kind of, you know, it's not so interesting anymore, maybe.

Like the most, the crazy people are always the most interesting. If you've solved your internal struggles and your therapy and stuff, and you kind of become kind of, you know, it's not so interesting anymore, maybe.

So the backpack, MacBook, toothbrush, some clothes, underwear, socks. You don't need a lot of clothes in Asia because it's hot. So you just wear swim pants, swim shorts. You walk around, flip-flops. So very basic. T-shirt. And I would go to the laundromat and wash my stuff. And I think it was like 50 things or something. Yeah.

So the backpack, MacBook, toothbrush, some clothes, underwear, socks. You don't need a lot of clothes in Asia because it's hot. So you just wear swim pants, swim shorts. You walk around, flip-flops. So very basic. T-shirt. And I would go to the laundromat and wash my stuff. And I think it was like 50 things or something. Yeah.

So the backpack, MacBook, toothbrush, some clothes, underwear, socks. You don't need a lot of clothes in Asia because it's hot. So you just wear swim pants, swim shorts. You walk around, flip-flops. So very basic. T-shirt. And I would go to the laundromat and wash my stuff. And I think it was like 50 things or something. Yeah.

It gives me happiness for like two weeks. I'm very quickly adapting to like a baseline, hedonistic adaptation, very fast. But man, if you look at the studies, most people like, Like get a new car, six months, you know, get a new house, six months. You just feel the same. She's like, wow, should I buy all this stuff? Studying hedonistic adaptation made me think a lot about minimalism.

It gives me happiness for like two weeks. I'm very quickly adapting to like a baseline, hedonistic adaptation, very fast. But man, if you look at the studies, most people like, Like get a new car, six months, you know, get a new house, six months. You just feel the same. She's like, wow, should I buy all this stuff? Studying hedonistic adaptation made me think a lot about minimalism.

It gives me happiness for like two weeks. I'm very quickly adapting to like a baseline, hedonistic adaptation, very fast. But man, if you look at the studies, most people like, Like get a new car, six months, you know, get a new house, six months. You just feel the same. She's like, wow, should I buy all this stuff? Studying hedonistic adaptation made me think a lot about minimalism.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, like people around you, like people you love, nice food, nice experiences, meaningful work, those things, exercise, you know, those things make you happy, I think, make me happy for sure.

Yeah, like people around you, like people you love, nice food, nice experiences, meaningful work, those things, exercise, you know, those things make you happy, I think, make me happy for sure.

Yeah, like people around you, like people you love, nice food, nice experiences, meaningful work, those things, exercise, you know, those things make you happy, I think, make me happy for sure.

Yeah, so when I wrote that, I was getting so many DMs, as you probably have a million times more. And people were getting angry that I wasn't responding. And I was like, okay, I'll just close down these DMs completely. Then people got angry that I closed my DMs down, that I'm not like...