What would be considered ordinarily great preparation to our success ? And as part of this , can you tell us about spending more than 50 days in total solitude at Buddhist retreats with no reading , writing or eye contact with other people and also tell us about the year in a food science lab , creating formulas that measure the carbs and protein of organic coconut oil , cashew butter , organic apple powder , amber , honey , organic rolled ose , organic buckwheat flour and more than 10 other ingredients . Yeah .
I do . Um , but , uh , it's , uh , a really an incredible practice which is , you know , sitting in silence , um , for these retreats for 10 days at a time . No reading , no writing , no eye contact .
Strangely enough , my , my mind got stronger and stronger in those last few weeks in Antarctica , even though I was so beat up and had frostbite and my body was falling apart . I found these places inside of my own psyche that were strong and powerful and deep flow states and , and deep inner peace . And I kind of carried that with me for many years .
And like I said , unbeknownst to me , it was like , when I got to that point of thinking about it , aa I could visualize it because I had done the work because I had done like , well , most people be like , well , I haven't even spent a day alone . How could I spend 55 days alone ? And I was just like , well , I spent 10 days alone multiple times so I could start to kind of build on that mental side .
My phone walked , took breaks , but I took a day alone . No music , no podcast alone in my own head and solitude . And as I came back , I had regained a lot of that equilibrium .
