Just realised I passed 20 months sober at the start of this week 🥳 - Originally extended 18 to 20 because I wanted to focus on Modern Wisdom and writing articles for my new website but now lockdown is in place I think I'll continue sobriety until that reopens. - Here's something I've been thinking about to do with sobriety and behaviour change more generally... - Behaviour change takes a LOT of activation energy to overcome the principle inertia, but the returns are exponential after that. - Until you learn to deprogram the societal norms which influence you, your genetic predispositions, your coping mechanisms for any traumas, your habits and the paths of least resistance which you've fallen into, the best you can hope for is to be the smartest rat in the room. - To achieve freedom we must be able to think for ourselves. If we don’t cut to the core and learn to fully, independently program our wants (our desires) then our best-case scenario is to be a successful, rich, or famous slav...