TJ Power

And pleasure is not the best life.

And pleasure is not the best life.

It feels good at the time. It feels good. It's very addictive.

It feels good at the time. It feels good. It's very addictive.

Extremely hard. I had to go, yeah, big periods of abstinence. When I was at university, I got so into this pleasure loop of smoking cigarettes and drinking and everything, basically. And when I was about 22 years old, I was thinking, there's no way I'm going to live a life that I'm really happy experiencing with this. And I knew that my grandpa lived in...

Extremely hard. I had to go, yeah, big periods of abstinence. When I was at university, I got so into this pleasure loop of smoking cigarettes and drinking and everything, basically. And when I was about 22 years old, I was thinking, there's no way I'm going to live a life that I'm really happy experiencing with this. And I knew that my grandpa lived in...

this like natural setting, they had a house with a garden and stuff like that. And I didn't grow up, I grew up more like a bit more town life. And I took myself there and I spent like 90 days at this house living like a monk basically, because I was like, I have to somehow get off this stuff. And very quickly I discovered there is a different thing that you can be in the pursuit of.

this like natural setting, they had a house with a garden and stuff like that. And I didn't grow up, I grew up more like a bit more town life. And I took myself there and I spent like 90 days at this house living like a monk basically, because I was like, I have to somehow get off this stuff. And very quickly I discovered there is a different thing that you can be in the pursuit of.

You can be in the pursuit of a pleasureful experience of a really healthy life. Like you can start really loving like the nature walks and the hiking and the cooking and just the getting really dialed in to optimization. And if you are someone that's super addicted to all the unhealthy dopamine, I really think the only route is addiction towards the healthier pursuit of life.

You can be in the pursuit of a pleasureful experience of a really healthy life. Like you can start really loving like the nature walks and the hiking and the cooking and just the getting really dialed in to optimization. And if you are someone that's super addicted to all the unhealthy dopamine, I really think the only route is addiction towards the healthier pursuit of life.

Yeah. And it doesn't mean it has to be unhealthy with that lane, but it needs like the big thing with addiction, like my favorite definition of addiction is the progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure.

Yeah. And it doesn't mean it has to be unhealthy with that lane, but it needs like the big thing with addiction, like my favorite definition of addiction is the progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure.

And if you look at when you're in a period of addiction, like if you look at alcoholism, eventually your family don't make you happy and your work doesn't make you happy, exercise doesn't, but the alcohol brings you the pleasure. And it's this narrowing of what is the pursuit of pleasure for you in your life.

And if you look at when you're in a period of addiction, like if you look at alcoholism, eventually your family don't make you happy and your work doesn't make you happy, exercise doesn't, but the alcohol brings you the pleasure. And it's this narrowing of what is the pursuit of pleasure for you in your life.

And then the other side of this, the good life being the progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. And rather than like, for me, I had alcohol and pornography and cigarettes being like really driving things of what created pleasure for my brain. Then it suddenly became this fast array of nature and exercise and food and social and contribution and work and so on.

And then the other side of this, the good life being the progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. And rather than like, for me, I had alcohol and pornography and cigarettes being like really driving things of what created pleasure for my brain. Then it suddenly became this fast array of nature and exercise and food and social and contribution and work and so on.

And suddenly when I had a variety of things that were giving me the experience of happiness, the kind of deep need I had for the quick stuff began to fade. And this thing was actually fulfilling me.

And suddenly when I had a variety of things that were giving me the experience of happiness, the kind of deep need I had for the quick stuff began to fade. And this thing was actually fulfilling me.

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