6. I used to be so deeply impressed by many of these people and their varied talents. I still am. I used to think that with such people, life would be different.

5. A lot of them stagnate and become pale shadows and excuses for where they thought they were headed in their lives. The iron law of mediocrity reasserts itself, but not very sublimely.

4. Some become invested in their own philosophical or spiritual or media-driven greatness and begin to compete with others for the immortality that fame is implicitly believed to bring. They look for their chance to change the world, to make a dent in the universe.

3. They still get into heaps of relational complications and drama. They suffer from anxiety and burnout. They begin subscribing to crazy religious, spiritual, intellectual, and political doctrines—ruining their lives and families as a result. Some few commit suicide. universe.

@HedevanD @AlbertEinstein Good point.

An interview on the upcoming book — this one delves pretty deep and faces the more intellectual listeners. youtube.com/watch?v=vPcVxH…

Cosmoeroticism: the erotic drive is at the center of our spiritual experience of reality, our wordless relationship to reality itself. That’s why it’s called “cosmo”-eroticism; it’s about centering our attention on our lust-driven relatedness, our love affair with the cosmos.

*From the upcoming book.

Just like you can take a personal issue and project it onto a societal one, so can you take a societal issue and project it onto a personal one. Simple example: Did you know that about 98-99% of venture capital goes to men, 1-2% to women?