Tim Ferriss

Like, it's a propellant that I used.

So I was just fucking intense, super intense, and took that experience and everything, compartmentalized it, and I was just like, okay, like, no rear view mirror, forward, that's it.

And I think for...

That can work for a while.

You know, it can work for decades in some cases.

Ultimately, I think, if you want a semblance of peace and well-being, you kind of have to pay the piper and deal with it.

And I have been surprised.

I mean, look, how many...

of the friends I have who are veterans who operate at a very high level, came out, ended up, for any host of reasons, doing, say, Ibogaine or other psychedelic-assisted therapy, who in the process of doing that realized that it wasn't principally, say, PTSD,

often some component of TBI, but there was some type of trauma they didn't deal with.

Super common.

Super common.

I would say 80% of the guys I know.

And so it's really, like the numbers are staggering.

And the people who kind of survive as opposed to like self-destructing, at least in the beginning, I think get really good at compartmentalizing.

Right?

But compartmentalizing, while it can help you with performance for relationships, for friends, for family, it doesn't work very well.

You end up being emotionally cauterized.

And, you know, the armor that you develop to keep things out keeps a lot of things in, and it keeps a lot of people out.

So, to answer your question, though, things that ended up really having a positive impact