• How to Use Doping to Enhance Your Experience

    by Alexander Becker on August 31, 2006 | Link

    What? Using drugs to improve athletic performance? Why not? Some restrictions apply, though.

    Whatever you are constantly and continually improving, is eventually stagnating, standing still at its current level of performance. It is only logical that you are researching ways to further improve and to enhance, to optimize, and to gain or maintain your competitive advantage.

    There is a technological process which is called "doping," a technique of altering the electrical conductivity of a semiconductor material, such as silicon, by chemically combining it with foreign elements. An impurity element is added to a semiconductor lattice in low concentrations in order to alter the optical/electrical properties of the semiconductor.

    Certain characteristics in materials are enhanced and some are exclusively achieved only after introducing some impurity, breaking up homogeneity with surprising effects.

    It is not by accident that technology and sports medicine share the term. Think spices. While spices flavor foods and beverages, some are stimulating condiments. The common theme is the stimulation through substances foreign to the material that is to be enhanced.

    Doping is the adding of impurity and while impurity itself may not be desired, it turns out that this is exactly what we need to achieve and to become our best. Impurity is human. That's why we admire and adore the absolute pure, the divine, the unattainable. Use it to your advantage and deliberately apply impurity where purity is impossible to emulate.

    Observe every instance of perfection you encounter and investigate whether the addition of some foreign element paves the way to accomplishing true perfection.

    Adding an impurity element works very well in fashion, in combining and in breaking up styles, in combining new with select, unexpected, old elements. Think wearing something slightly askew. It works in styling that hairdo and in creating spectacular make ups for on and off stage.

    In food preparation, stimulation is achieved through the addition of spices and through combinations of foods that in conjunction, produce completely new tastes and sensory effects.

    Doping works in ideation and in composing and mixing colors, think breaking a cold white with a drop of pink, for example. The most valuable ideas are generated through the introduction of apparently unrelated and -- at first -- fiercely rejected input.

    In athletic performance, you are naturally trying to get the most out of what you have, your equipment and your body. I do not think that there is a difference, from an ethical or moral point of view, between taking vitamins, caffeine, testosterone, or even the weirdest chemicals to improve your performance. I do however, maintain the principle of not doing anything which is detrimental to your long-term health and that is where the doping of athletes usually proves itself wrong.

    The goal is to do whatever you can for the highest good, now and in the long run, for yourself as well as for all. This is where doping in sports fails. If it was only for competitive reasons... isn't everybody trying to be the best?

    Nothing absolutely pure -- except for the divine -- is superior to anything which is in some way doped. It is the impurity that creates life and its many shapes and facets. If an impurity is genuinely enhancing your experience, with all its consequences, explore it, employ it, and build a kingdom on top of it.

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