Taleb: Fasting.
So that’s one thing I’ve applied – it’s about subjecting yourself to variation. Another one is thermal variation.
Stoffel: Can you talk about that?
Taleb: Yeah. Go stand outside in the cold. It’s simple.
The third one is: Eliminate from your life any kind of dull work. In other words, if work is not intense, just don’t do work.
In other words, just don’t mark time. Just don’t count it as “work.” I have a room in my house – when I’m there, I work. When I’m not there, I don’t work. So I try and avoid it, but when I go there, I go there.
— Comparing religions naively is silly, it’s heuristic and leads to things like saying,
“Well, he has a right to exercise his faith.”
— Some faiths should not have the right to be exercised, like Salafis or extreme jihadism because they’re not religions. They’re a legal system. They’re like a political party that wants to ban all other political parties. If you go with that, you’re repeating certain mistakes.