Yeah. Real brain rape starts with the Black Knife Kiss* and goes downhill from there.

*No, you don't want to know.

Third option would include drug addiction.

Except for the God grant me part, yeah.

Open source.

What does 'sheer dumb luck' mean?

Conflating people with politicians is an egregious category error.

Loehr talks about Real Self and Performer Self, that the goal in performance state is high positive energy, whereas in recovery mode one should, for example, acknowledge hunger and eat, acknowledge thirst and sleep, acknowledge exhaustion and nap....

Squatting heavy once a week will make you stronger than almost everyone at almost everything, younger, healthier, leaner, smarter*, richer, prettier; takes about fifteen minutes. How does that compare to your current exercise regimen?

*http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000465

**http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0197-4580/PIIS0197458005002745.pdf