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Make solving big problems your life’s purpose, not trying to find a “job”.

Reach out if so and I’ll make sure you are in the VIP WhatsApp with speakers, etc. and that you are invited to the private mastermind.

How do you know if you have a drug and alcohol problem?

1. Do you have problems in your life?

2. Do you use drugs or alcohol?

Turns out to be a pretty useful mental model.

For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem.

No Sleep kills your energy and productivity. You need proper sleep to be your best. Could you imagine an NBA player saying the secret to winning an NBA championship is not sleeping and working out all night?

Mastering leadership will get you time back, and prioritizing self care time so you can go hard is the winning combo.

No Fun. Again, you need to recharge, find creative inspiration, have healthy relationships.

Overall, it is a very negative signal if founders are doing #2 & #3. It signals they are trying to cosplay looking like what they think success looks like.

The reason I have a job is because the actual most successful unicorn founders understand they need world class support, coaching, and self care to really build something incredible.

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I'm honored to be speaking with Paul Stamets (Fantastic Fungi), Rick Doblin (MAPS.org) & Chelsea Handler at the Wonder Summit in November, which is a 9 day cruise to Antartica themed around AI, Psychedelics, Mental Health & Longevity.

If you are attending, we are putting together a private WhatsApp Group and will have having some HN meet-ups on the cruise ship - email me if you'd like to be a part of that group (a@175g.com).

I don't see a dime of the ticket price as I'm speaking to support MAPS, however I do have access to a deal for our community and am happy to pass that on, in addition to some other perks -- email for that as well.

I imagine there was some behaviors, communication issues, emotional disconnection, etc. that lead to your wife not feeling supported or understood?

In other words, how does it make you a “better person.”

Also, I’ve yet to encounter any medications that aren’t without risks or long term issues.

And again, no obligation to reply. But I would be curious about:

How much time do you spend in actual nature / wilderness each week?

How often do you fast and for how long?

Are you part of a men’s group?

Do you meditate daily?

Do you do HIIT daily?

Do you have training in somatic and emotional awareness and conflict communication with your wife?

Do you avoid overly processed foods, sugar and eat all or mostly plant based foods?

An “academic career” is an unnatural environment. You weren’t build for it, you were built for fasting days at a time, covering 25-50 miles a day in often harsh wilderness environments.

Your oldest ancestors had the physique of professional athletes and the default was not eating and spending time in packs coordinating for survival. All of them. That is the environment we are adapted to.

So again, ADHD is to a very large degree a by product of modernity.

This is true of a wide swath of our so called mental health issues.

Amphetamines may help people cope with a suboptimal environment, but you can also dramatically change your environment and the way you approach your life.

I’ve seen it in myself and in others.

You are being diagnosed as not fitting into a malformed environment, that's all it is. Oh, you aren't super into being stuffed into a deck for 8 hours a day for 12 years? Here are some amphetamines, this will help you conform to your role as an input in an industrial process.

Get into nature, run wild, follow your bliss!

The majority of our work has been a group of individuals who have opted in.

In the case of teams, some founders have asked if we could offer this during Covid or during the war starting in Ukraine and offered it as an interesting free activity. Not everyone came and the vibe felt fine.

But I can also see your concern about that and it’s valid. We have had a couple people that initially came and said they weren’t comfortable and it was totally fine for them to leave. It’s also been outside of work time so people choose to come on their own time.

2. I can understand that re confusing terms and will have my team update that - this is a newer CV that was compiled for a talk I’m giving with Paul Stamets and Rick Doblin and am happy for the feedback. I ran an underground clinic specifically because you couldn’t be licensed at that time.

I don’t say or intend to imply I’m licensed by anyone.

In fact, my personal healing came from well outside the mainstream which I found to be counter productive to the growth I was looking for.

I regularly consult and work with licensed folks, MDs, etc. either advising or who would refer people to me to support outside of what they could provide.

I no longer run the clinic and now advise, coach or help folks integrate experiences.

Also note to mods, this feels like a valid question — I wish people would question practitioners and approaches more in any healing field.

I recall reading every primary research paper I could find over a period of 90 days and then questioning my psychiatrist on their approaches and sort of getting no real answers.

BioMythic is something we’ve always gifted to the community as a way for folks to gain group access to some of the same tools that our 1:1 coaching clients get access to in our Alchemy program (which is also waitlisted / full as of now).

We work with all sorts of folks, including founders who both seem to be a large part of the YC community and who often face incredibly challenging mental and emotional obstacles that are unique.

I’ve personally overcome and healed using these tools and would like to help prevent other people from the time and pain I went through, and to prevent us losing any more creative visionaries.

I hope that clarifies things.

Just leaving a clickable link since there is interest.

Also my relevant work is here: http://earthpilot.ai/cv

Basic idea is addictions are largely driven by unresolved trauma and breathwork / transpersonal practice is a way to allow the nervous system to release and shift into a healthier state where the desires to numb with substances diminishes.

My relevant experience is here: http://earthpilot.ai/cv

That said, I agree that finding trusted people is a process and I’ve seen people really get messed up from bad practitioners in the psychedelic / transformational space.

Anyhow, thanks for allowing the sharing of this.

Happy to offer a free virtual session for founders if there is interest here, as our work is always gifted.