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#14 - David Allen | Getting Things Done (GTD)

The Metagame

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Taking Psilocybin Reduces the Ambient Anxiety

Last time we spoke, I mentioned how I rediscovered GTD from first principles when I took five grams of magic mushrooms. And since we spoke, he found a better way to describe what that experience was like. So I think psilocybin, just like meditation and some of these other substances and practices, they reduce what cognitive scientists call sensory gating. The thing that you naturally put, you put a filter on the world because not everything is relevant all the time.

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