Sahil Bloom

I've always gone to bed at 8.30 and woken up at 4, very much always lived differently.

And look, I think a lot of that comes from my background, especially my Indian side.

My grandmother was extraordinarily wise when it came to this thing.

type of stuff.

Before she passed away, I asked her for advice she would give to her 30-year-old self.

She said, never fear sadness as it tends to sit right next to love.

That is directly tied to what you just said about the labeling of these certain emotions, whether it's sadness or struggle or

anxiety as being bad and the other ones being good, now you're saying like, okay, well, these are bad, so I should try to get rid of them.

I need to fear these things and try to eliminate them, reduce them, reduce the friction that comes from them.

But when you do that, you don't expose yourself to the good.

If you're not willing to endure the risk of sadness, you will never feel the true depths of love.

You will never open yourself up in the fully vulnerable way that is required to experience the true depths of love.

And so many things in life are that way.

If you don't expose yourself to that struggle and that real pain, you will not feel the joy of that hard earned win that you get on the other side of it.

And so I do think that that message getting across to more people that so many of these things in life dance on this razor's edge.

And without experiencing the bad, you cannot possibly hope to experience the good.

I think that the bad is good in what it is.

creates in you.

Understanding all of those depths of who you are and what you are capable of and recognizing that you can become friends with that bad, if you will, I think that that draws upon a lot of

ancient practices, whether it's Buddhist or Stoic practices, it is embracing it as just part of who you are as a whole being.