Chris WilliamsonHow Dr K Came Back From Rock Bottom
Chris Williamson
Rock bottom at college 0:00
He describes failing out of college after spending 16 to 20 hours a day on video games and missing his Spanish final. After a brief spell of frantic studying, he simply did not go. He later went to India at 21 and spent 90 days in an ashram.
A teacher sends him back 1:02
At the end of the ashram stay, he told another student he wanted to become a monk. That teacher told him to return at 30, finish his education, and become exceptional in the material world first. The advice was confusing, but it stayed with him.
Failure becomes the lesson 3:30
Back in the US, he met his future wife, then slowly saw that monkhood was more about the inside than the outside. He graduated with a 2.4 GPA, missed Harvard medical school, and felt a clear, calm knowing in meditation that the failure would take years and had to be lived through.
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