How Having A Stroke Reveals The Truth About Life - Robert Greene

The gist

1. Greene says culture shapes what we take as real, noting that today's tech and AI metaphors will look different in 400 years.
2. He describes a neuroscientist whose stroke shut down her brain's filters, silencing her inner chatter and making her feel one with everything.
3. She took 8 years to recover language and thinking, then felt depressed and wrote a book about finding her way back to that bliss.
4. Greene defines the sublime as a doorway outside these limits that shocks and changes you, citing his own brush with death and mountain climbers.
5. He argues we take nothing for granted once we see how close evolution came to other body types and how an asteroid let humans exist.