I went from not being able to see to 20/20 vision, took two and a half years. I went from barely being able to walk to running 100 kilometer ultra marathons in about four years. We can do extraordinary things with our brains, but it's quite boring and it's quite slow. You just need to get those small compounding effects.
“And the neuro rehab team taught me that you need to find something, you need to measure it, you need to improve it a little bit every day.”
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I left the hospital after month couple of months, but I took another ten months of doing neuro rehab to kind of get back to work. And the neuro rehab team taught me that you need to find something, you need to measure it, you need to improve it a little bit every day. So obsessive self improvement was something I had to redo. So I went from not being able to see to twenty twenty vision, took two and a half years. I went from barely being able to walk to running a 100 kilometer ultra marathons to about four years. I went back to work after eleven months. And so, like, we can do extraordinary things with our brains, but it's quite boring and it's quite slow. You just need to get those kind of small compounding effects. And a lot of that philosophy is also what happens as being a kind of founder. Right? You need to be determined. You need to be measuring things. You need to be improving them the whole time. You need to find leaps, but you also need to find continual optimization. So so that's my kind of brain story. So, hence, you know, I'm a neurobiologist who lived in a brain hostel who's had a brain hemorrhage and now invest in brain tech. I like brains.
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Powerful personal transformation story with concrete metrics (20/20 vision, 100k ultra marathons) that illustrates the practical philosophy of 1% daily improvement. The contrast between 'extraordinary things' and 'boring and slow' creates compelling tension.
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