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Jason Silva

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first: 2014-05-12
most recent: 2014-05-12
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“So I find you inspiring, dude. You know, I used to read four hour work week years ago in point doom in Malibu. And I remember reading it and feeling like you have hacked it. You have figured it out. You rented an apartment in Argentina or make it happen. And that template, stay with me, dude. I remember I was very affected by your book. I was like, this guy's got it figured out.”
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“Dude, I saw a documentary last night called Maiden Trip about a 14-year-old Dutch girl who sailed around the world by herself Was like absolute. I was completely blown away. She's 14. She had to fight the Dutch government to let her go. And it was like, but it's like insane. She took a camera with her. And then this filmmaker turned it into this dock and it was just, and I was just like, maybe I want to move to the sailboat one day, do something like that.”
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“I had my apartment in LA and I would come to New York a lot when I was current. When I quit current, I was dating a girl who had a place in New York. So I would come to New York a lot and crash at her place and we were a little bit bicoastal for a while. After that ended, I gave up my LA house and I was like, I kind of want to like be a nomad for a while. And I put some of my stuff in storage and sent some stuff down to Miami with where my brother is at. And then I did a little bit of traveling and then I started doing all this speaking. And then I got brain games. Now brain games was in New York. So I kind of planned to eventually get a place here. But in the meantime, I've been kind of, you know, leveraging my friendships around the city. And one of my friends has an extra bedroom that I've been crashing out when I'm here. But because I travel so much, it doesn't matter.”
2014-05-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 5: Jason Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Great, man. Thank you. Yeah, so at the moment we just finished another season of brain games and there'll be new episodes coming out in July and then probably shooting another season at that point as well, hopefully with a few creative upgrades as we evolve the show and continue to make it relevant to people. But particularly in the meantime, please check out my shots of awe videos, youtube.com slash shots of awe, aw-a-e, or you can Google them. I'm uploading videos every week or every other week lately, and my most recent one is called To Be Humid is to Be Transhuman. And it's about our use of technology to literally overcome our obstacles. That's my philosophical soapbox. And so I think if people want to have like a head trip and like a mind jam with me, like go check out those videos. And then follow me on Twitter at Jason Silva S-I-L-V-A. And that way they can keep up with all the news.”
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“My younger self. Yeah, I guess I would. I would encourage my younger self, my younger self to just not be afraid, right? To realize that a lot of the things that were I don't want to say crippling anxieties, but definitely ever pervasive fears in my life growing up. A lot of them were unnecessary. A lot of time was wasted. A lot of energy was wasted being worried. And I wish I could just let go of that and have encouraged myself to just let go a little more.”
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“Wow, I'd love to spend some time with Danny Boyle, the director. The guy has done such diverse films, but they all share a searing intensity, a quality of engagement of the body mind that I think is just his signature, whether it's 127 hours or slumdog millionaire or even that classic, the beach, that DiCaprio film that he did 10 years ago that people didn't seem to love, but I thought it was awesome. Danny Boyle, man, I want to sit and sit with him while he makes some music for his movies. I want to know how he edits and how he puts the songs to the moments and what he's trying to create.”
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“Wow Chris Anderson, curator of Ted. I'm a convert. I've drank the Kool-Aid. I love Ted. It's particularly the main event, like that gathering, that spa for the mind. And it's funny because I feel like Chris Anderson is somebody who's infinitely curious. He still has that childlike awe and curiosity. And I think the whole TED Enterprise is ultimately about his desire to bring in all these beautiful, brilliant people together and curate and basically experience design five days of intellectual bliss. The fact that he gets to like do that and help build that is such a, to me, it's like such success.”
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“Be able to I guess dilute or lessen the anxiety that I often have to deal with just with day-to-day things. I become unnecessarily anxious about stupid logistical type things. They just like annoy me and make me anxious and just occupy my head.”
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“Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn. Yeah, I'll go with time from inception. It's really like Part of my sort of, yeah, it's part of my day.”
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“I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to augment my senses, how to give myself additional modes to perceive reality, to enhance my perception of reality. So to actually consider cutting one off, I don't know if I can answer that. I don't know if I could pick one to get rid of, to be honest. It's a difficult question for me to answer. Yeah.”
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“Like, that's my barometer. That's my compass more of that, less of the other stuff. And so you'll probably see me working towards finessing how that plays out over the next several months.”
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“Tamed and trained. But nonetheless, after four years there, it was flatlining. The network was flatlining and I was flatlining. And it was only when I left and decided again to go back to the content that I wanted to make and follow my own gut was all of a sudden where the videos that I was doing on the internet came out of. And those are the ones that have led to traveling the world and keynotes and partnering with Discovery Digital for shots of awe and national geographic for brain games. And everything has come when I completely dove in fearlessly and made the content that I needed to make as a kind of as an artist. I was just like, I got out of my own way. I stopped doubting myself, I guess. And it was really what I learned even. And so the world, the universe winked at me when I did that, so to speak. And those winks were my way of, you know, realizing, okay.”
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“Let's make it to a more polished presenter. And, you know, I was able to ride that, thankfully, because I had a co-host. It was my college buddy, and we were able to kind of keep each other company through the difficulties of being like.”
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“I want to build my life around flow states. And I think what I've acquired over the last few years, I guess perhaps you could say the experience, maybe the confidence, maybe the evidence that I can trust my own intuition when it comes to being successful and the content that I want to make and the content that will get me where I want to get to. Because, you know, the documentary that I made when I got the gig at Current was very similar to what I do now with shots of awe. That documentary got me the gig of current. So there we go. My intuition, my willingness to think outside the box and do something that was in my own voice got me the gig of current. Once I got to current, they tried to tame me a little bit. They were like, don't move your hands so much.”
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“I would put myself as a. Recovering Planner. No, I definitely, I'm a bit envious, but in the best possible way of people that are really, really, really free spirits. Only because I aim to, I'm attracted to the vitality and the freedom of the free spirit. All the girls I've ever been in love with have been Bohemian manic pixie dream girls. They've been free spirits. And I think the reason I'm attracted to that is because I”
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“So it becomes more like a journey that you're taking with that character as he sort of takes that, has that mystic psychotic collapse almost, you know, like, and then passage through madness. And then he kind of makes the return, hopefully, at the end. So it's like films that take you on a very, very much Joseph Campbell Hero's journey, those are big for me.”
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“Inception was definitely one of them, and pretty much everything that falls into the false reality genre. So these are the kind of films that make you question your perceptions of reality. So of course it includes films like the Matrix. Of course, I would say that the Truman show is there. I would say that films like Existens. I would say films like Vanilla Sky, which was an underappreciated film that I really, really loved. I would say Memento, absolutely. Most recently, I saw a film called Enemy inspired by the Dostoevsky, The Double, that story about this sort of second self and the Doppelganger. Jillen Hall is in it, I believe. Amazing, like false reality. What is real? I kind of love films that have that unsettling quality to them because they make you feel a little. They're kind of like, they make you question everything you thought you knew and that unsettling feeling makes the film even more immersive.”
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“Get enough sleep. I'm just off. It's like such a pet peeve for me. Like, even a little bit of being not enough sleep, I'm like, forget it. I can't handle consciousness. I just like.”
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“Trying to think, okay, I'm kind of weird about traveling because I'm such a control freak because every time I have to get on a plane, I usually do a lot of research beforehand to make sure that I'm flying on like the newest possible jet that that airline has. So if it's like, you know, it has to be like on an A380 or like some brand new addition to the fleet because I can't stand flying on old airplanes because I feel like they probably have stress fractures on it or something. I'm really neurotic about that. I'm really sensitive to jet lag. I'm almost like a little girl. Like if I have to go somewhere, I just, I need three days to recover before I can do anything even remotely productive because.”
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“Let's see. Well, I used to be like a manic collector of DVDs and now obviously I don't do that anymore, but I'm like kind of neurotic about my list of movies. And like if I love a movie, I probably watch it like 10 times in a row. And I want to kind of relive it and understand it and get under its skin. I also... Let me think, what's another obsession?”
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“Yeah, submitted that documentary that I did my senior year of college. And that was like they offered me the gig to come make content and host the series. And that was like first time I was ever on salary. Crazy.”
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“Right. So I went to an international school and it was really the focus, thankfully. My family was like, you know, just study what you love, study what you love, study what you love. And I was lucky enough that they helped me with college. And they allowed me to kind of indulge my intellectual and aesthetic sort of interests. And then from there, my first actual paid gig ever was current, believe it or not.”
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“doing something vital that I felt was vital. And other than that, my circumstances are a little bit different because growing up in Venezuela, it's not like in the US where it's difficult for kids to get like summer jobs and stuff. That just doesn't really happen in Venezuela because we mostly lived behind like armed compounds because it's so South America. It can be so dangerous. Right.”
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“The crappiest job. I had an internship, I guess it was after my first year of college, or maybe actually the summer after I graduated high school, maybe before I went to college, it might have been. Anyway, I was staying at the dorms at NYU and I was interning for a film production company because, of course, I was studying film and I wanted to do movies and make documentaries. And so my cousin got me an internship. And I remember it was like, yeah, you know, get us coffee. And I kind of freaked freaked out and quit after a week. Yes. Yeah, no, not too proud of being so quick to exit, but it was just, I don't know. I don't know. I just kind of felt like I wanted right away to.”
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“Yeah, usually it's that. And then occasionally, one of those will be so good and in such flow that it will keep going until 6 p.m. Today was one of those days. Like today I've been pretty much on and like just kind of in this kind of flow and working on the computer since 1130 and I haven't really taken a break except for a little walk. So it just depends. Sometimes you find this resilience and this energy. Other times I'm like, you know done have to put the stuff away and go see a movie or something.”
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“If I'm not shooting early morning stuff for NatGeo, then I actually like to usually sleep at least until 8.39, sometimes 9.30. I don't like to just like wake up at 6 a.m. Because for whatever reason, I don't get sleepy usually till like 11 or 12 or even like 1. And I need my seven hours at least of sleep. So it makes it so that if I have to get up really early, annoying because it means I have to fall asleep early so that I can get enough sleep. And that's going to be difficult because I usually like to watch films in bed at night before I go to sleep. So that's kind of how it works.”
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“If I have to shoot brain games, then I have to sort of work around that longer shoot schedule, which can be sometimes difficult and intense. If I'm doing shots of awe, then the morning is like that. And then the afternoon will be like, you know, we'll do like a three-hour shoot where we'll do like 10 or 12 episodes sometimes, find some gems in there. And if none of those things are happening, then it's the same morning followed by an afternoon film, followed by, you know, usually dinner with friends.”
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“The legumes, the lentils, the beans, they get out of the way. And then usually when that's done, then it's like, what am I going to do today to get flow? I've taken care of biology. Now let's take care of my mind needs. And so then if it's, you know, if I have to do meetings or whatever, I try to probably do them all at like one or two in the afternoon. It's the time of day when I'm sort of ready to focus energy.”
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“Yeah, I mean, the mornings for me are usually the... The non-day dreaming non flow kind of more mechanical part of my day. It's just like breakfast, coffee. I do enjoy my triple espresso in the morning, always over ice, always with a little bit of milk and some stevia. I do like my caffeine in the morning, you know, caffeine shower, exercise. I'm not much into like running or that kind of stuff, but I used to do a lot of rock climbing, particularly a bullerin. So low altitude, high impact. And so part of the training for bouldering has persisted even when I have moved to New York. But so I do, I have one of those pull-up bars in my house and I do a bunch of pull-ups every morning, a bunch of push-ups, kind of with my own body weight, get that out of the way. I'm really into healthy eating if I can. So like there's the brown rice, there's the sort of lean organic protein.”
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“Is the inception soundtrack? Yeah, I mean, I probably listened to the main track. It's called Time. I listened to that every day, multiple times a day, which I adore. But usually, yeah, it's music that seems to find a way of always being able to elicit an emotion. And then that emotion will sort of place everything else into context. It frames everything else that's going on in my life. It soundscapes my reality. And I love that. Again, it's about wanting to be the author of the screenplay that is your life at any given moment, right? And wanting to take control of the pen instead of just being a passenger.”
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“I'm not much of a concert goer, so usually I discover music watching films. I'm a film junkie and I think cinema is the last alter left. You know, like that's where I go to completely lose myself, to have a divine experience. And usually because I'm so immersed when I watch films, I'm so completely surrendered and immersed and in almost a trance state that I'm very open to suggestion. So not only do I believe the sort of simulation of the film and it becomes reality for at least two hours, but whatever music is accompanying the film is usually something that's going to resonate and going to get in there in a very deep way. So I happen to be a big junkie for instrumental film scores. Like, oh my God, dude, especially film trailers. You can really find a lot of epic heart-thumping music in film trailers. But I would say the most recent score that I listened to almost daily.”
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“So I think a lot of it has to do with the environments that you put yourself in, the people you surround yourself with. The routines, the songs you listen to, all of these artful Aesthetic choices you make about your surroundings, I think, work to induce the subjective spaces that we desire. And those that don't incorporate those elements, I think, miss out on the power that they have to basically control their experience.”
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“Those conditions. So I was reading this very interesting article by Timothy Leary and Ralph Metz are written in the 60s about programming the psychedelic experience. And they were talking specifically about the Harvard studies when they were giving LSD to the students and how to basically create discursive environments, create environments that would orient the tripper, the psychedelic tripper during the trip. Like the same way that a pilot has longitude coordinates when he's in the sky to orient him as he's in flight. So through the psychedelic tripper needs to have signals set and setting to control the orientation of his trip. And what I thought was fascinating is that, you know, you could take those tools and techniques and apply them to non-tripping minds too. Normal consciousness is still affected by set and setting. You know, as Stephen Johnson says, our thoughts shape our spaces and our spaces return to.”
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“Habitual things Yeah, I mean, that goes back to a lot of the techniques, the tools and techniques that the guys that Stephen Cotler and all the and the guys talk about with flow and with the flow genome project. So it's like, first of all, I mean, if you're a basketball player or if you're a philosophy junkie, the whole point is the guy that loves basketball and it's his flow. You know, he treats every game like with the same joy and excitement as the first time he ever played basketball. You know what I mean? Like he has not lost that love or with golf or with if you're a pilot with flying. Like you want that child innocence and excitement about combined with your expertise that you have acquired over many years and your skill set. So again, it's that idea of flow, but I think for me, it goes even deeper than that because I think because of the spaces in which I like, because first of all, my flow is”
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“An addict or liking being into cognitive ecstasy, or as Carl Sagan used to say, being a wonder junkie. Notice that he combines the words wonder with the word junkie, right? So it's like he's like hitting his vein with a syringe of wonder because that's That's how much he wants to be in awe. And when you look at a presenter like Carl Sagan, I think the reason we enjoy his work is because the guy's like in a reverential, ecstatic state when he talks about the universe. I mean, when he speaks of it, it's like he's coming. He's having a mind gasm. And so I think it's just, it's that. It's that buzz that he's on when he speaks that I try to hack and deconstruct and sort of create for myself. And it's interesting because”
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“We come alive because it immediately arrests our attention and our senses are heightened and all of a sudden that which is of the everyday, which is stale and invisible, is pushed aside and everything becomes as if seen for the first time. There is a kind of rhapsody to that because, you know, we all remember what it was like to be a kid and going to a toy store for the first time, seeing a roller coaster for the first time, like seeing an IMAX film for the first time. There's something kind of amazing when we can transcend what Michael Polland calls the been theres and done that to the adult mind. In other words, jaded. Like to me, being jaded is almost like being dead. Like, oh my God, like nothing impresses you because you feel like you feel like you've seen it all before and you go through life with basically dark lenses on, you know, the curtains closed. No light gets in, no rhapsody gets in. And to me, that's death. And so, yeah, back to the idea of being like.”
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“On the flip side. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I remember that conversation. Yeah, luxury is novel to you. It's definitely connected to, I guess, what I've read about dopamine as a sort of mood regulating neurotransmitter. So we get rewarded with dopamine every time we sort of partake in a new activity. So it rewards us originally in terms of evolution, we were rewarded for spreading widely, right? So exploring and overcoming obstacles and mating lots of mates. And today we get that same dopamine hit every time our phone vibrates, every time somebody tweets at us, every time that, you know, we get new followers on Twitter or go on a date with a new hot girl or meet somebody new for the first time, see something we'd never seen before. And when dopamine floods our system, from what I understand.”
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“I grew up in Venezuela and I lived in Caracas, the capital until I was 18 and I grew up bilingual. I basically in my house they spoke English and Spanish at the same time. And I went to a Spanish speaking elementary school and then seventh grade and on middle school and high school I went to an international American school in Venezuela in college.”
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“I was already like winning in like, you know, debate class or the public speaking type of stuff was what I was recognized for. But it was usually, it had to be sentences that had fire, ideas that had fire. Like it wasn't that I was lecturing about something that I had no interest in. So it wasn't really about drama class. It wasn't about remembering a monologue that didn't tickle my fancy. It was more about me digesting something that was compelling and then it coming out in remixed form using my sort of my wordplay.”
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“For whatever reason, for me, it's always been words, words directly related to what I am thinking, words that connect to my musings and explorations at any given moment. And to go back to my childhood, my mom is a teacher, so that probably had a lot to do with it. She taught high school English literature, and she was an incredibly celebrated teacher that transformed the lives of a lot of students. So I grew up in that environment, right? I was surrounded by her poetry books and her instruments and her sculptures. And so that was the fertile ecology of ideas that I grew up in, number one. And then in middle school, I used to often, I was actually a timid kid. I mean, I still am, I'm more of a site-specific extrovert, but by nature, I'm sort of timid and reserved, except when it comes to ideas that engage me. And then I come alive. And then I used to win the public speaking award.”
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“Freestyle scheme. And this whole search for the elusive fugue state known as flow, there's been a lot of science recently. They've done fMRI scans on freestyle wrappers when they go into these flow states. And of course freestyle wrappers are literally doing stream of consciousness. They start rapping about a topic and the whole thing is an unscripted flow. And they compare those fMRI scans with the brains of a rapper doing like reciting memorized lyrics. And what they found out is that a part of the brain responsible for self-editing, I think it's the lateral prefrontal cortex. I might be wrong, but a specific part of the brain responsible for self-editing seems to go dim. So whatever it is that's in there, in their subconscious is being served up to the”
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“So he just wrote his new book The Rise of Superman. It was all about how athletes seem to have honed in. They seem to have hacked flow, essentially. And of course, flow is connected to states of maximum optimum human performance. So, of course, extreme sports athletes are really good at doing it. That's why they're able to push the envelope of what's possible in the sport. And these flow states have to do with, I guess, with the skill set, finding the space, the opportunity to fully express itself after you've achieved your 10,000 hours of practice or whatever, you get to this kind of no-mind state, you know, where you're kind of hyper-focused, but at the same time, you're not all there. You get out of your own way, so to speak. And I think for me, my sport maybe is this kind of verbal wordplay, like improvisational wordplay is kind of my sparring.”
2014-05-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Episode 5: Jason Silva · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well Wow, man. Thank you so much, first of all, for the incredibly kind words and observations. But it's interesting because hearing you just now, just the way you even formulated the question, you seemed like you were in a flow state. You seemed like you started off somewhere and you went on these descriptions and then eventually brought it back and then you asked me the question, which was great. And I often tell people that that what I just noticed in you is pretty much what I try to create or to deliver or really to induce in myself when I'm talking about ideas, which is to go into a flow state. You're probably familiar with Stephen Kotler.”
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“I guess you could say that I'm an auto didact and I'm a lifelong learner and I'm very curious by nature, but it's not just It's mostly about where I arrive when the moments of curiosity finally deliver, right? So again, that cognitive ecstasy. And so my work, my content, the media that I make is a direct reflection, I think, of these obsessions and sensibilities. The best incarnation of which now is shots of awe, which is my web series, which again is a kind of stream of consciousness orgy, if you will. Like I kind of go and delve and rant and riff on a variety of topics that have to do with maybe futurism, existentialism, metaphysics, the technology, the co-evolution of humans and technology. I mean, I guess basically anything that I'm reading about or thinking about that is leading me to these headspaces of wow is what I try to capture with shots of awe. I know that sounds like a mouthful, but that's really what it is.”
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“Yeah, well, it's interesting. I was having a conversation recently with a writer that I really liked, and she said that I was addicted to cognitive ecstasy. So basically, because I often describe myself as an epiphany addict, and what I mean by that is that I feel that I am most alive. And I think most people can relate to this feeling. I feel like I am at my most alive when I have these profound moments of just kind of revelation and understanding, these moments when the gestalt is revealed, when I see something in a new way, when a pattern is revealed. There's that great Isaiah Berlin line that says to understand is to.”
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