Tom Bilyeu

So that's very interesting.

And I appreciate the number of people that try to save me from my childlessness.

Look, it comes from a great place.

I really do understand it and I read it as such.

And so I appreciate the attempt insight.

So I think that people should really look at their lives and say, okay, how does my brain work?

And so what is likely to make me feel the way that I wanna feel?

I think fulfillment ultimately is the thing that matters the most.

It's the only positive neurological state that I have encountered that will survive even grief.

So I orient towards that.

What is going to be the thing long term that makes me feel fulfilled?

Now, fulfillment, I think, is a byproduct of evolution.

Evolution has things that it wants you to do.

I think the surest path to fulfillment is to have children and contribute to the group.

There's no doubt that having kids is what nature wants you to do.

And so you don't do that at your own peril.

In choosing not to have children, I realized that I create a deficit to evolution and that I have to make sure that I address that.

I have to find a way to derive meaning and purpose, to address the sense that I will end and nothing will carry on beyond me.

Like those are all the things like they're mappable.

And so when I look at those things, recognize where it creates vulnerabilities in my life.