I don’t often make it clear what I am choosing instead when someone learns I don’t do certain things. It’s not really that I am choose not to do those things, I choose benefits that come. For example, I treasure the very sensitive to impressions that come to me all the time, and what I learn through them is so valuable, I feel no sacrifice from not drinking, smoking, or having caffeine. I choose those insights unavailable in any other way.
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