The One Person I'd Gladly Trade Places With

I believe this is real, not just an Indian David Blaine.

Apparently we all have it in us to override the 'lizard brain' and forgo natural desires that the vast majority of us gorge ourselves on on a daily basis

Bobby Sands and those burning monks in Vietnam spring to mind, although they all died of course  - this is the next level up, actual survivual for decades without essentials.

The whole area is perhaps much misunderstood in the 'west', although there are practitioners of these things I doubt that many of them are doing it for the right reasons

I just find it frustrating that we apparently all use the tiniest proportion of our brains in comparison with what could be.

Not advocating this as a way of life, just as food for thought when I'm next thinking about going to the pub, stuffing my face at the kebab kiosk or some other earth-crashingly original exploit like that.