Tim Ferriss

And then in 2012, probably, 2012, my girlfriend at the time

went on retreat to Peru and did three nights of ayahuasca and came back and was just a different person.

And I was like, okay, that's interesting.

And she said, you really need to do this.

And I was like, I don't think so.

And she said, it's 20 years of therapy and two or three nights.

And I was like, damn, you know me too well.

It's a pretty good pitch.

And I was like, okay.

And keep in mind, this is before I unpacked all the trauma stuff, but she was aware of it.

And I was just white knuckling with my compartmentalization.

I was like, no, I'm fine, I'm fine.

And then just basically around 2012, just like, you know, the reentry from outer space, like...

the front of the hall is getting red hot."

And I was like, oh, okay.

I'm at risk of blowing apart here.

And two things simultaneously happened.

One, a friend of mine, one of the most successful extreme photographers in the world, said, you need to try some type of meditation.

He's like, go pay someone and do Transcendental Meditation.

And I was like, eh.