Don’t get me wrong: Cortisol and adrenaline are what you need to move ahead in this world or you’d never get out of bed, but the problem is we have no way of turning them off because these days there will always be another email, always another disaster, always something you want and can’t get. We never feel satisfied because there’s 20,000 miles of mall tempting you to get more. We can’t stop striving and trying to keep up with the next guy.
Magazines make you crazy to be a stick insect size 2, to be the most fit, to be a winner like Richard Branson. We can’t have it all, and all of us have a tipping point but we’re not aware of it so we keep pushing. This is seen as ambition and a great thing to have until we burn out or go crazy. By the way I wouldn’t say Richard Branson is mentally adjusted or Bill Gates who I once interviewed. He was like a block of cement with dandruff. We have no brakes only breakdowns. But don’t be hard on yourself, all of us have this problem. Evolution did not prepare us for the 21st century, we just don’t have the bandwidth - and that’s why I started to study mindfulness.
Magazines make you crazy to be a stick insect size 2, to be the most fit, to be a winner like Richard Branson. We can’t have it all, and all of us have a tipping point but we’re not aware of it so we keep pushing. This is seen as ambition and a great thing to have until we burn out or go crazy. By the way I wouldn’t say Richard Branson is mentally adjusted or Bill Gates who I once interviewed. He was like a block of cement with dandruff. We have no brakes only breakdowns. But don’t be hard on yourself, all of us have this problem. Evolution did not prepare us for the 21st century, we just don’t have the bandwidth - and that’s why I started to study mindfulness.
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