Ibogaine is a psychedelic from Africa with no recreational appeal — it's 24 hours of reliving your worst moments — but it rewires addiction at the neurological level. Rick Perry went from measurable brain atrophy to none at all within six months. Joe Rogan went to the White House to pitch Trump directly, and within a week Trump was signing it.
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Rogan puts the obvious question directly: how the hell does Sheridan run Yellowstone, Landman, 1883, Lioness, and multiple other projects simultaneously without a single dud? The answer turns out to be systematic brutality against waste. Sheridan has worked with the same core crew since Wind River — when they were freezing on a Utah mountain with no producers in sight and no budget — and every person in that crew has been promoted from within the organization. PAs became first ADs. Camera operators became directors. Everyone knows exactly how things work, so nobody needs a meeting to figure it out. The contrast with standard Hollywood practice is stark: tone meetings, prop show-and-tells, 12 weeks of pre-production — all of it exists, Sheridan argues, not to make better shows but to give middle management a reason to exist. He doesn't ask permission to choose a lighter for a scene. He just shoots. The result is that every show since Wind River has been good, which Rogan notes is a genuinely extraordinary record given the volume.
Sheridan's secret is the same core crew from Wind River, all promoted from within, who simply don't hold the meetings that networks invent to justify their existence. No tone meetings. No prop show-and-tells. No 12-week prep — just 4 weeks. Every show, no duds.
Ibogaine, a potent psychedelic from the iboga tree, can rewire addiction in the brain and for a large percentage of people just one dose is sufficient to free them from substances.
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry had age-related brain atrophy confirmed by scans; after ibogaine treatment it was reduced by 25%, and 6 months later his doctor found it completely gone.
While a typical television production preps for 12 weeks before filming, Taylor Sheridan's streamlined team does it in just 4 weeks.
AI and drones are about to permanently alter warfare. Fully autonomous drones with devastating payloads can be pre-programmed, launched, and complete their missions without a single human decision after takeoff. Sheridan calls this the teenage years of a new kind of warfare — and he's terrified of what happens when it grows up.
Before writing a single word of Landman, Sheridan went to Billy Bob Thornton and told him: I want the guy from Bad Santa to run an oil company in West Texas. Thornton's answer was immediate: that sounds fucking awesome. Sheridan didn't call anyone else.
Self-help fails because people are sold one universal cure by the hyper-responders who had a transformative result from it. The real problem is context: every method works for the right person at the right time, which is almost never you just because the author says so.
Spencer Greenberg was once so socially anxious his heart pounded just approaching a stranger. His therapist gave him homework: go to a bar alone, talk to 5 strangers. Starting with asking for the time, he worked up to asking men for hugs — and his anxiety fell dramatically in 6 months.
A person who flies regularly but obsessively checks weather forecasts before every flight is not doing exposure therapy — they're teaching their brain that flying is only safe with the ritual. Safety behaviors prevent the brain from ever learning that the feared thing is actually fine.
The worry-time technique assigns all worries to one scheduled slot (e.g. 5 PM). Every time a worry surfaces, you write it down and ban yourself from engaging with it until that time. When 5 PM arrives, most worries feel trivial and the act of batch-worrying exposes how little it actually accomplishes.
In a randomized study of 20 habit techniques, 'habit reflection' stood out: recall a past habit you successfully built, write down what helped you succeed, then apply those same strategies to your new habit. It works because it's self-adapting — it uses whatever worked for YOU.
The tiny habits technique — always having a minimal version of your habit you can do when life gets in the way — keeps the mental machinery of habit formation from breaking. Paradoxically, people given a tiny-habit fallback option were MORE successful at the full habit, not less.
Fears and worries act like playground bullies — they want to ambush you. But when you deliberately seek them out and choose the time of engagement, they lose their power. The volitional act of starting the fight on your own terms is one of CBT's most underappreciated insights.
Most downtime defaults are things you regret immediately after — phone scrolling, binge TV. 'Glad you did it' activities meet the same need for rest but leave you feeling like you spent your time well. The switch from a bad screen to a documentary, a book, or a walk costs almost no extra effort but compounds into identity over time.
You rarely control your first reactive thought. But you can train your second thought — the response to the trigger — by asking whether your initial reaction is the most helpful one and replacing it with something equally true but more constructive. Over time, that second thought becomes automatic.
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