My 2022 self (I don't know them) was very wrong about meditation, huge monitors, and... sleep.

Alexey Guzey · 7 Feb 2023

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A cultural focus on psychological health, meditation included, is one of the great obstacles to human progress.

Recalls holdingI think meditation has been very good for me and that it would be very good for a lot of other people too.

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A cultural focus on psychological health, meditation included, is one of the great obstacles to human progress.

Recalls holdingI think meditation has been very good for me and that it would be very good for a lot of other people too.

Their words nowMy 2022 self (I don't know them) was very wrong about meditation, huge monitors, and... sleep.
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Daytime sleepiness is a normal state to live with rather than a signal to sleep more, so the right amount of sleep is the least you can sustain.

No longer holdsTherefore, I realized that it’s very important to be as awake as possible and that my model of sleepiness where you can be “awake”, “sleepy” and “asleep” is dumb.

Their words nowI tried Adderall and it made me more awake than ever before.

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