Sublime

K. Anders Ericsson. He was a psychology professor at Florida State University and the author of an article titled “Exceptional Memorizers: Made, Not Born.”

The Losers like to feel good about their lives. They are the happiness seekers, rather than will-to-power players, and enter and exit reactively, in response to the meta-Darwinian trends in the economy. But they have no more loyalty to the firm than the Sociopaths. They do have a loyalty to individual people, and a commitment to finding fulfillment

Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS, indexing activities such as sky-diving and mountain climbing), Disinhibition (DIS, indexing behaviours like drug and alcohol abuse, vandalism or unsafe sex), Experience Seeking (ES, indexing travel, psychedelic drugs and music) and Boredom Susceptibility (BS, indexing proneness to boredom and the need to be doing

3. A barbelled personality—optimistic about the future, but paranoid about what will prevent you from getting to the future—is vital.

“How many people in the world are truly crazy?” I might say, I don’t know, 3 percent to 5 percent. But if I asked, “How many people in the world would be willing to do something crazy if their incentives were right?” I’d say, oh, easily 50 percent or more.