Shekhar Natarajan

It puts you in the present moment and in a flow state.

What you were speaking to before about love fading over time, I think you were maybe speaking directly to the idea of habituation.

Or like people kind of starting to take each other for granted simply through repetition.

And I've thought about this a lot because I am a creature of novelty and at the same time I'm a romantic.

I love the idea of loving somebody over time.

And I've always felt like what's the hack here?

One of the things that can make you, for example...

revivify the high of connecting with somebody.

It's like boosting dopamine.

There's some habituation.

Maybe you don't have to switch partners, just switch the context.

Let's take a trip somewhere.

Let's just go to Japan together and get lost and see how that radical novelty pushes us together and forces us to see each other in new ways.

Let's ritualize couples MDMA therapy four times a year.

Yeah, let's incorporate cannabis and gypsy jazz on walks in nature.

I'm telling you.

I have cultivated a series of my own sort of psychological interventions and ecstatic practices to go back to beginner's mind continuously.

Put myself in states of heightened openness, heightened salience, heightened qualitative intensity.

These are practices that are part of my lifestyle.

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