Not me

Fair enough. I’ve only lived in RS so can’t know for sure either.

@quantumspiral definitely not true, unless you’re comparing to the worst parts of Western Europe

100%! I did an exchange year there 6 years ago and it felt light years behind Finland (where I’m from). My high school geography teacher there didn’t believe in climate change, and the justification she gave was: ”The ice in the north pole melts every summer anyways.” I was mindblown.

He definitely was before that personal crisis of his somewhere in 2020-2022 radicalized him. So careerwise yes, if you don’t count the massive overworking. Emotionally no.

People here with such black and white thinking. Try it out and see if it helps. For me it has been good for faster learning and coming up with new ideas as a student. A bit hard to do very analytical work on it though.

@Ramanujan Have you actually read the book by Robert Greene? It has very concrete strategies for attaining mastery, definitely not just ”put 10000 hours into it”. In my experience it is at least 100 times more practical than George Leonard’s book.

Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants. Fish is good in moderate quantities. Eating small fish species is a good idea to avoid heavy metals.

https://selfhacked.com/blog/32-ways-to-stimulate-your-vagus-nerve-and-all-you-need-to-know-about-it/ Vagus nerve issues are a big cause of anxiety. Try practicing the things in that article, they should help. Circadian rhythm can be affecting anxiety too. You can search that same site for how to fix circadian rhythm as well. Hope it helps

@Hansu haha I could instantly tell you were from Finland too. The thing you said is possibly the worst thing about our culture.

Audiobooks with 2x speed. You can listen to them anytime.

Check out neuro charger and gamma burst by iawake! I use those. The effect is quite suddle but definitely helps.

Some background information: I’m 20 years old, I have meditated for three years and done magic mushrooms three times before. I have a pretty calm and extroverted personality type and can function quite well in stressful situations. So there’s a big music festival coming this summer where I live. I’m thinking about doing magic mushrooms there. The point is not to trip per se but to get to that magical vibe of the festival. Also I don’t really like to drink tons of poison (alcohol) which my friends will be doing. So this would basically be my way of getting into similar vibe but without the drinking. I would have one friend to do this with and we would take 1-1.5g of shrooms each. Maybe take it in three doses to make it more mellow. What do you guys think? Would this be a good idea? A big mistake? Would it be better to just drink the alcohol? And of course any suggestions or ideas to make it better would be appreciated. I realize the being sober is an option as well but I’m still young and want to have fun as well so I don’t really see anything bad in taking some substances mindfully.

I stopped restricting food. Cured myself in two months. First I gained some weight but then it stopped and I had no more binging ever. Caloric deficit is the root cause of bingeing. Your body will look much better by eating more due to metabolism speeding up. Maybe you are still restricting on some level?

If you have the genetic predisposition any major stressor could trigger it. Check out this article https://selfhacked.com/blog/cannabis-may-cause-paranoia-psychosis-schizophrenia-people-know-youre-susceptible/. It’s not exactly psychedelics but cannabis comes close. You could test for those genes if you want to be really certain.

@outlandish Good point. I wonder if you could also eat extremely calorie dense and non processed food and get fat. For example I imagine eating a lot of dried fruit would lead overeating. Would the body still have mechanisms to prevent fat gain just because the food is healthy?