Yeah, if you're a person who'd invest a big chunk of your life into a zero-to-one effort, you're more likely than usual to think the health establishment missed some opportunities, and that you have better than average judgement of the apparent opportunities and their risk-to-reward. This should explain such people trying such things, without shamanism. (OTOH yes, the startup-CEO population includes mimics of this type of person.)
You can come to this belief through either actual discernment or entrepreneur personality disorder. Me, I at least agree that there's a health establishment that could be a lot better at settling on truth, and that discernment is a quality that varies.
Skimming the Wired piece, the closest to the above that I saw was:
> So are CEO-shamans putting on a show? People everywhere intuit that self-denial and other shamanic practices cultivate power. Being human, tech executives presumably draw the same inferences. At least part of their decision to engage in shamanic practices, then, might stem from a sincere desire to be special.
You can come to this belief through either actual discernment or entrepreneur personality disorder. Me, I at least agree that there's a health establishment that could be a lot better at settling on truth, and that discernment is a quality that varies.
Skimming the Wired piece, the closest to the above that I saw was:
> So are CEO-shamans putting on a show? People everywhere intuit that self-denial and other shamanic practices cultivate power. Being human, tech executives presumably draw the same inferences. At least part of their decision to engage in shamanic practices, then, might stem from a sincere desire to be special.