mostly harmless

guy dives with no oxygen (30-40 meters deep). amazing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pellegrino " Uranium content[edit] In 2007, the German consumer television program Markt reported that San Pellegrino contains uranium. Nestlé was informed about this and responded that uranium was common in both bottled and tap water and that the 0.0071 µg/l found in their product was below the 0.03 µg/l threshold established by various governments and food health organizations.[2] They added that San Pellegrino is not suitable for infants under 12 weeks of age.[4] "

This illustration, of course, assumes the common conception of success and failure. What about a person who is very successful in life, and then at the end he/she dies? Is that ultimately a loss? What is success or failure anyways? It is a judgement. Wether you regard the outcome of someone's actions as success or failure is 100% relative to your expectations. If you want to explain something to somebody and the other person does not understand you, you could say it is the recipient's fault. Or you could say that the communication (as a process of a sender of information and a recipient of information) did not succeed. So you could work on the sender end or the recipient end, or on both ends. But it is your expectation that the communication is supposed to work that makes you decide wether it succeeded or not. Could you also modify the expectation then? The other thing is: Success or failure build on the state of things at one single moment. However, life is a process. What is the point of taking a single moment to decide wether or not the life as a whole was a success or not? With a lesser implication, road maps and goals make sense for planning, so you can have accountability and make sure you're on track. But that's a tool, not an absolute truth to judge wether a life in its entirety is well lived or not. People have needs and preferences. From a personal perspective everyone is more content if their life is close to their preferences. I enjoy helping out people I meet to get a good understanding of what they want and to be strategic how to get there. But success and failure as they are commonly understood are too much based on single moments. I would always argue that it makes more sense to focus on progress (each day) rather than outcome (at some single point in time). The focus on progress has one major practical advantage: No matter where you are in life, you can always make a little progress from day to day.

It's a question of balance and ration I'd say. I eat very healthy in general. But once every two years I eat a bag of potato chips. Obviously that does not kill me as it is rare. A lot of what what we as society regard as fun activities (entertainment) actually does not raise our mood. Instead when we really take a hard and honest look at how we feel while doing those, we are bored and restless. The message that there's something better, that we can feel better, that life can have a higher quality is good news. There's nothing to worry about. Keep doing what you've been doing. If you find Leo's videos interesting, then watch them. Maybe you want to check out some other speakers/authors (Eckhart Tolle, Ajahn Brahm...). With time your mind will process it and it will make changes automatically. You will simply lose interest in some things when the time is right for you.

My question would be how interested are you in other people? I propose a little experiment: Try to find out what you could find interesting about any of the persons around you by asking them. You can also connect this to things that you are currently occupied with. Let's say a holiday is coming up and you are not sure where to go. So you could ask people about what they could recommend. Maybe they had an amazing holiday at some particular country or city. Typically when people feel honest interest in them, I think it's very likely that they do connect. Also watch this

For anyone interested getting into Thai food