I stayed 20 mins in an ice bath and got sick for 2 months

Right before the start of YC S26, I went to a spa on a weekend.

There was a sauna and an ice bath, usually people stays in the ice bath for 1-2 mins, but I wanted to see how much pain I could tolerate.

After that, I got sick for 2 months, fever every week, headache, nausea. I went multiple times to the doctor and even to the emergency once, they did tons of tests and couldn’t find what’s going on.

This is the founder journey: how much pain can you tolerate?

Sometimes your mind can tolerate more pain than your body, and that’s when the above happens.

When you’re used to wake up at 4.40 am every day for years, take cold showers, eat the exact same microwaved can food every day, you tend to become numb to what you body says.

One thing I found really helpful to remind my brain that my body exists, is ecstatic dance. It’s an event in SF on Sunday morning, where everyone dance sort of randomly, however they want, inside of a church with spiritual music and no conversation allowed

This helped me a lot to turn off the mind and let my subconscious drive everything