All the (created) anxieties around life, like ‘You have to find your passion’, you have to be successful, you have to own a house as young […]
Mission accomplished: I got stung by a blue bottle like a mother bitch.
Can you control pain? Is it all in the mind?¹ This is the experiment I set out to run just over 4 months ago: And today, […]
Pain is your body telling your brain: ‘If you keep this shit up, we’re about to die’. But is it possible to override it and use your mind to tell your body: ‘Yo. Shut the fuck up and chill the fuck out.’? And tell your brain ‘Don’t listen to that stupid asshole. We’ll be fine. No one’s about to die.’?
Admiral James Stockdale spent over 7 years in a Vietnamese Prisoner of War camp, where he was tortured by having his legs crushed, his back […]
I’m hungover. But is telling yourself ‘I’m hungover’ or ‘I’m sick’ just a self-fulfilling prophecy?
I go for the Oakland Raiders in the NFL. And last night I watched this happen: Anyway, I celebrated like it was 99BC and now […]
Can you use your mind to overpower pain? (+ my first experiment on pain: Get purposely stung like a motherbitch by a blue bottle)
If you see a black dog, you think ‘I see a black dog’. And much like you sense the dog with your eyeballs, you also […]