People said I was talented, and I always loved math and physics. I went to prep school for math and physics, and my emotional state did not allow me to pass the class.
In the modern world, we value merit and motivation over everything else, we don't care about aspirations or self-determination. There will always be a barrier or a filter to stop people from doing what they really want to do. We want people to work hard to prove they want something, and we don't really value what people like, we only value competitiveness.
Problem is, we don't understand a lot about motivations, and merit is a myth. People will always fall back to classical argument of natural selection and survival of the fittest to explain how the world is unfair.
In the end, "raising to the top" or asserting one's position in the world, and not feeling like a loser, those things don't matter. There are plenty of people who find their place in the world, but who will still feel like they're missing something once they reach it.
She is not a physician, she had phd in psychology or other soft sciences. I have no trouble with this, but this sounds like another one of those life coachs. Ew.
A psychiatrist told me about neurotoxicity. I will trust a doctor 100 times before I trust anything online.
> Otherwise I'd say it's taking some minuscule effect and blowing it out of proportion.
I don't see how psylocybin would help people with a bit of depression or other problems. I don't want to take a drug just to have some fun. I need more than that.
And no, I don't drink. Alcohol is a depressants, so I don't need that.
I would only take them for therapeutic purposes. I'm already on anti depressants. I'm really not convinced mushrooms would genuinely help.
Psychiatrists are really not fan of those things, they are considered neurotoxic.
It's weird how often people talk about those drugs. They are still studying them to treat some specific things like PTSD, alcoholism... Yet here, people seem to believe it can treat other things as well.
I'm sorry but I would rather let professionals do their work. If you're into recreative drugs, fine, but don't advocate for drugs under a scientific premise and pretend it's a cure for other things. That's not how science works.
Yeah I dont like when people imply I don't have friends or enough of them. I know I can have a discussion with anyone if I feel like it or if people come to me. I just answer "the world is my friend". My father is also like this.
I'm leaning on the introvert side but as an adult I've quickly adapted.
A therapist also told me friendships are a lot of work to maintain, and often a cause of pain. If romantic relationships are already a source of pain, I cannot let friendships do the same to me.
You're right, but one part of this is the cost of wealth redistribution. There is less social inequality in france than in the US. Healthcare and welfare are comfortable here. You have less problems of social inequality in general.
In france, another problem is that some medium/higher social classes tend to capture publicly paid jobs. That's another problem too that needs to be tackled.
In my view, it's a choice of how a country decides to allocate its resources: not letting people live in awful conditions and work 3 jobs, or having trillion dollar companies make money on the technology developed on the back of DARPA something like 50 years ago.
It's easy to criticize an entire country for its "policy on tech", but it's important to not forget about tax optimization, which is another part of the problem. France does have a lot of good scientists too, build aircraft and is a nuclear power. I'm sorry to say that generally, the silicon valley VC aura is VERY OFTEN filled with libertarians who have zero clues about how poor people are "managed", and the reality of social inequality. It's a entirely different culture. France saw a socialist president in the 70s through the 80s, who had tough words against capitalism. You cannot dismiss political history.
Just my 50 cents, I really wanted to bring some nuance. All countries have their own political problems.
And to be clear: I'm poor and live in a 18 square meters, and would love to be silicon valley rich and make 80k per year. But I would also take resources from other people who don't have the education I have.