Erik Schimek

Life in a Nutshell

Being Told Repeatedly By Doctors You're Gonna Die Young
You Heal Yourself and Survive, People Tell You You're Crazy for Thinking and Acting Differently
Living Life By Your Own Standards

Self-Overcoming

We can’t remove every external barrier to our success, because we have little control over the world around us.

Yet we do have immense power over ourselves, power over how we react to this environment – the path of self-overcoming.

Life Experience

I’m an erudite hermit who studies the world, seeking to understand it better.

I read a lot of books when I was young. My reading focus shifted from reading encyclopedias and the Bible to books on evolutionary theory and history, as I was deeply confused about the mismatch between ‘how the world was supposed to be’ and the idiocracy of lived reality. How to change this? How to adapt my own life to rise above?

Perpetually whitepilled. Learn, study, then act and do.

My life growing up was terrible, I lived in an alcohol and cocaine fueled chaotic home. A series of live-in boyfriends meant experiencing all sorts of violence, the worst aspects of human nature. I found it difficult to see beyond this malaise.

So I learned how to hack thoughts and emotions from my cyberpunk friends Kid Thalidomide, Saint Vitus and Cyber Messiah. They taught me a form of Neuro-Linguistic Programming that viewed the human brain as a form of computer, with code that could be edited. Cool guys -- I didn't join them in their wardriving and pirate radio adventures. I dropped out of high school and spent a full year recoding myself.

I went on to be very successful in college. I was invited to be a schoolteacher at the alternative high school I graduated from, did that for three years, then I started entrepreneuring.

I taught myself how to design websites, run online marketing campaigns, and drive tens of millions of dollars in revenue. I haven't had a 'real job' since then, all of my work has involved launching my own projects and helping friends to make money online.

Among other projects I worked on, I helped an isolated and conservative Amish community to market their furniture online and maintain their traditional way of life in the face of modernity.

I also worked in politics and ancestral health & fitness, managing conventions and political campaigns intended to help uplift and improve people's lives.

I love learning, understanding the world around me better. It's been my prime goal throughout my life. To understand how to rise above the idiocracy of the modern world.

Proving the Experts Wrong

The biggest barrier I’ve overcome is related to personal health. I started becoming very sensitive to low level toxins in my early 20s, which led to me nearly dying several times.

I was sent to the Mayo Clinic for weeks of testing, they couldn’t find anything so I got sat down at a conference table full of doctors who argued that I’d be dead by age 30 unless I took a bunch of drugs and subjected myself to endless psychotherapy. I challenged their assessment and asked for proof in the form of research and journal articles, I asked them to look at relevant MSDS (material safety data handling sheets) printouts and show me where my symptoms were not listed.

The doctors couldn’t provide any proof or peer-reviewed studies. Their argument was that if the prestigious Mayo Clinic couldn’t find a physical cause then the chemical burns and brain fog and 20 other awful symptoms must be mental in origin, because it’s not normal for a person to respond that way to toxins and poison. Even though their own documentation showed that these symptoms were clearly within established medical norms; they were simply unusual.

So I left the Mayo Clinic and learned how to heal myself. I’m still alive today, several decades later.

I studied nutrition, exercise, brain chemistry and wiring, detoxification pathways and epigenetics, meditation, lightwork … anything that might work I tried it via a natural science approach. Does it work or doesn’t it work was my only ideology. Through this intense practice I’ve become an expert at the art of self-healing and self-recoding.

In developing and testing Meliora Meditation over 10 years, I’ve been mocked and ridiculed by friends and family. The disconnect between ‘super rational Erik’ and ‘guy teaching woo stuff’ is too large a gap for their brains to bridge, and my challenging their favored myths in the form of scientism and psychology and stoicism and soyboy masculinity hasn’t helped.

I don’t understand that attitude. I’d be dead many times over if I listened to ‘expert advice’ versus doing my own research and doing my own independent testing. I’m a simple dude, I go with what works.

And I'm usually right, because I keep and open mind and follow the data.

I believe in, have faith in, one simple concept -- that we can accomplish whatever we set our minds to. Whatever the barrier.

Change

The primary work of my life has been survival. Rising above my broken and destructive family to achieve academic and entrepreneurial success, learning to heal myself when my doctors said I'd be dead by age 30, surviving and overcoming numerous backstabs and betrayals.

Through an intensive process of self-healing and self-improvement, I’ve learned that upgrading yourself is not a linear curve. It is a slow, difficult and erratic climb that necessitates internal change.

Internal change is difficult. It requires strength, determination, bravery and hope.

Change requires open-mindedness, learning, and trying new things. Which means encountering failure.

Failure requires picking yourself up off the floor, dusting yourself off, and doing. Again and again and again. Even when the world tells you you're wrong, stupid, broken, unfixable.

(If I listened to the 'experts' I'd be dead several times over. I believe in trying new things, I believe in quantifiable data, and I believe in doing what works. It doesn't matter what the world around me thinks. They're often wrong).

We can’t remove every external barrier to our success, because we have little control over the world around us.

Yet we do have immense power over ourselves, power over how we react to this environment. This is a process of self-overcoming.

Life in a Nutshell

Being Told Repeatedly By Doctors You're Gonna Die Young

You Heal Yourself and Survive, People Tell You You're Crazy for Thinking and Acting Differently

Living Life By Your Own Standards

Self-Overcoming

We can’t remove every external barrier to our success, because we have little control over the world around us.

Yet we do have immense power over ourselves, power over how we react to this environment – the path of self-overcoming.

Life Experience

I’m an erudite hermit who studies the world, seeking to understand it better.

Perpetually whitepilled. Learn, study, then act and do.

My life growing up was terrible, I lived in an alcohol and cocaine fueled chaotic home. A series of live-in boyfriends meant experiencing all sorts of violence, the worst aspects of human nature. I found it difficult to see beyond this malaise.

I went on to be very successful in college. I was invited to be a schoolteacher at the alternative high school I graduated from, did that for three years, then I started entrepreneuring.

I taught myself how to design websites, run online marketing campaigns, and drive tens of millions of dollars in revenue. I haven't had a 'real job' since then, all of my work has involved launching my own projects and helping friends to make money online.

Among other projects I worked on, I helped an isolated and conservative Amish community to market their furniture online and maintain their traditional way of life in the face of modernity.

I also worked in politics and ancestral health & fitness, managing conventions and political campaigns intended to help uplift and improve people's lives.

I love learning, understanding the world around me better. It's been my prime goal throughout my life. To understand how to rise above the idiocracy of the modern world.

Proving the Experts Wrong

The biggest barrier I’ve overcome is related to personal health. I started becoming very sensitive to low level toxins in my early 20s, which led to me nearly dying several times.

So I left the Mayo Clinic and learned how to heal myself. I’m still alive today, several decades later.

I don’t understand that attitude. I’d be dead many times over if I listened to ‘expert advice’ versus doing my own research and doing my own independent testing. I’m a simple dude, I go with what works.

And I'm usually right, because I keep and open mind and follow the data.

I believe in, have faith in, one simple concept -- that we can accomplish whatever we set our minds to. Whatever the barrier.

Change

The primary work of my life has been survival. Rising above my broken and destructive family to achieve academic and entrepreneurial success, learning to heal myself when my doctors said I'd be dead by age 30, surviving and overcoming numerous backstabs and betrayals.

Through an intensive process of self-healing and self-improvement, I’ve learned that upgrading yourself is not a linear curve. It is a slow, difficult and erratic climb that necessitates internal change.

Internal change is difficult. It requires strength, determination, bravery and hope.

Change requires open-mindedness, learning, and trying new things. Which means encountering failure.

Failure requires picking yourself up off the floor, dusting yourself off, and doing. Again and again and again. Even when the world tells you you're wrong, stupid, broken, unfixable.

(If I listened to the 'experts' I'd be dead several times over. I believe in trying new things, I believe in quantifiable data, and I believe in doing what works. It doesn't matter what the world around me thinks. They're often wrong).

We can’t remove every external barrier to our success, because we have little control over the world around us.

Yet we do have immense power over ourselves, power over how we react to this environment. This is a process of self-overcoming.