i wonder how life would have been as a hunter gatherer, have you ever thought about it? i don't know much about them, but from what i read it seems to have been about hunting and mating and sleeping pretty much like today right? but in a bit more intense way like hunting because you're so skinny, hungry, cold, so close to death, you need to risk everything, risk getting killed, killing, to survive it must have been emotionally intense right? imagine the adrenaline of running towards a huge 5m high beast and trying to kill it with your friends in order to not die yourself imagine the joy of eating this huge steak, bleeding, with your hands, your stomach screaming hell and then the night of sleep after 48h of sleep deprivation this is quite different from today's life everything is averaged, predictable, monotonous if you are not proactively adding extremeness, you are a robot you are repeating a pattern 90% similar, daily, for months, years, and your emotional level is on the average too, there are a few outliers, but overall it looks more flat than it used to be in mammoths time so how can you find extremes? do something that is hard for you something that makes you feel so bad, internally you are yelling to get out of this, yet, at the end, when you see through the sky again with clarity, this is when the extreme upside come, a feeling of peace and wonder have you ever taken an ice bath? upon entering the container full of ice blocks, pain suddenly is everywhere, as if you are pain itself, your body ring red alarm, it's almost like a near death experience but when it's over, you feel so high that you could hit mars, you are at the top of the mountain, a god, a sensory orgasm, peace life is not worth living without extremes #personal-growth #philosophy #extreme-life