Tim Ferriss
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
At the very end of high school, I had my first experiences with psychedelics.
with mushrooms first and LSD.
And after that, I was like, oh... Okay.
I don't understand how my experience of time can be cut up into slices and rearranged in the way that I just experienced it last night.
That is... That is... It doesn't really fit with my...
consensus experience of this reality.
So what does that mean?
I have no idea.
But I'm interested in exploring what that might mean.
So when I went to Princeton, I went to Princeton for a couple of reasons, where I applied to Princeton Early Action, which is like an exploding offer.
In retrospect, I think I would have been much happier somewhere else.
Princeton was a very difficult, stiff environment for me.
But I went there because they had one of the best East Asian studies departments in the world.
Really phenomenal.
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.
They had a very, very strong psychology and neuroscience program.
Danny Kahneman was there.
There was a guy named Barry Jacobs who had done a bunch of research with LSD and did a lot of research also on the serotonergic system involving cats and stuff because cats kind of sleep all the time.
I really wanted to work in his lab.
And then thirdly, there was something at the time, I was very sad that it ended up getting wound down maybe a year after I got there, but there was something at Princeton called the PEAR Lab, P-E-A-R, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, where I think, I could be getting some of the details wrong, but I'm pretty sure, at one point they had military funding,