Peak Experiences, and How They Can Change Your Life

Gavin Brennan
7 min readMar 3, 2021

Life is not all about suffering, as some of the greatest philosophers have told us. In life’s greatest and most blissful moments, we find not only joy and happiness, but wonder, awe and transcendence.

Being open to experiencing the peaks of life can change your life. Photo by Paul Gilmore on Unsplash

“Experience always means ‘bad experience’, doesn’t it?” quipped Nietzsche, though Nietzsche probably never knew what it’s like to snowboard through a deadly-quiet whited out

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Gavin Brennan

Psychology | Well-being | Travel | Writing | Flânerie.