Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.
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How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip into Words?
By Michael Pollan — 2018
Soon after I set out to write a book about psychedelics, it became obvious what I would have to do: Trip, and then write about what it was like.
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