The Lightening before Enlightenment
I want to draw your attention to my favourite creator of plaintext on the planet
I cannot remember when I first came across @nickcammarata
I can remember what he started to do to my brain
I am pasting what he wrote here so I can refer to it with my boldness added:
the ceiling of how good life can be is so much higher than I was told was possible
you will meditate and you will be happy and your short term memory will go out the window but you will not care
one of the most charismatic things you can do is reduce how much you need things from anyone
everywhere I see accomplished geniuses full of knots who think if they just get a bit more accomplished or just a bit more genius they’ll be happy. i think it’s the knots
Meditation, sleep, sun, lifting, coffee, friends, twitter, sex, coffee, stretching, psychedelics, reading, so many of the best things in life all have very little to do with money. We’re lucky it worked out this way
i think im antiea radicalized now
my friends treat their body like a playground (experiments with drugs, meditations, new exercises etc), cycle through dangerous sports, startups, and various ideologies.
as a group nothing has hurt their wellbeing as much as ea as
Most of the successful founders I know are fueled essentially by romantic rejections they had in their early teens. I think our economy might largely be running on the disgust response of 15yo girls
Nick is experiencing reality differently
What has been clear to me for as long as I can remember, is that Nick is experiencing reality in a way that I could not understand
After a lot of work, I cannot claim to be anywhere in the vicinity of his location
But I can claim this: I feel a lightening
Something has changed in me
It is not good or bad, but it is a lessening of something
I cannot claim to be better or worse for this experience
But I can claim a shift has started
Where this goes, I do not know
It is the most interesting thing I have ever seen
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