Tim Ferriss

Hugely beyond grateful.

I do not take it for granted.

And I do think that in the absence of real environmental stressors, we are built to overcome and adapt to stress.

And there's a book called The Comfort Crisis, I believe, that really delves into this.

But it's like, there is a great argument to be made for engineering certain stress into your life, including physical stress.

So... Yeah.

I should say also...

I mean, you know, obviously, multitudes more veterans than I do, but a couple of my best friends are vets.

And I think that if you don't very explicitly, consciously engineer suffering, it sounds strange to put it that way, but it really is like adversity, suffering, stress into your life,

there is, I think, an innate push to manifest it subconsciously while it seeps through the edges.

And that might take the form of slow-burn workaholism, right?

It might take the form of certain types of self-sabotage.

It might take the form of blow-ups and arguments with your wife.

It might take the form of fill in the blank.

And I have just found it so incredible.

And I've seen this too in a lot of my listeners and readers over decades.

It's like when you engineer in periods of stress, some of those other things just resolve themselves.

in an unexpected way.

It's not always the case.

I mean, you still need to be able to talk to your wife.