The Birth Story of The Future You Lab

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.” 
– Thomas Paine

I grew up with a keen sense of intuition and emotional intelligence that helped me see, predict, and analyze things differently. 

But, all of which I had to mostly suppressed due to external factors and pressures to ‘act’ or ‘think’ in a certain way.  

As a kind, I was what you might call an A+ nerd. 

Always top of the class. Good at sports. Shy a bit and with good small groups of friends and great parents (I love you too sister!).  

To the outsider, things were great. 

However, as I turned 14 or 15 years old, things started to change and I felt a strong shake in my personality. 

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like many Millennials, I found myself questioning a lot of the traditional life advice as I navigated my teens.

I lived these years more or less within expectations and ‘ideals’ that shaped my existence even though I wasn’t internally agreeing with most of them. 

Bottling all of that for a long period didn’t really go well as you might expect.  

It was only after a dreadful existential crisis experience that I had an “aha” moment around my late teens. 

I looked around and realized that I was very much unsatisfied and out of tune. (Like most teenagers I think, but mine felt more existential if you know what I mean).  

So to cope (so I thought), I slowly dismissed myself from so many friends. I found shelter in my own room consuming movies and music all day. 

Shockingly, I felt a strange sense of happiness in this disconnected state from the reality I was supposed to accept. 

I felt happy because in a way, I had engineered my reality to fit my needs in that room.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life”
– Henry David Thoreau  

As a quintessential Millennial, I’ve lived the highs and lows this generation faces in many aspects.

From relationships, careers, and self-worth to anxiety, toxic people, and lack of real purpose to name a few – the struggles were real.  

But so was my drive to understand why I faced these hurdles, and more importantly, how to overcome them.

As a result, that self-imposed exile experience sparked an unexpected passion – To understand myself more (maybe I was right and they were wrong or vice versa). 

This shaped the next chapter of my life after graduating high school with honors and starting college as a laser engineer.

In college, my interests in human psychology and mind philosophy peaked the most. 

Through grappling with my own interpersonal challenges and roadblocks, I discovered just how powerful these two fields are in peeling layers of delusion and dissatisfaction within me.

And so the journey began. 

Fast forward to a few years of self-discovery and dozens of books consumed, another unexpected calling began to take shape. 

I saw how desperately these revelations needed to be shared.

This is why I’m now on a mission to empower Millennials and Gen Z to have a healthy adulthood. 

I’m not a scientist and I’m not claiming to have all the answers but this journey of self-discovery completely reshaped my life and way of being for the better.  

It led me to make life-changing decisions that I never thought this real version of me would make. 

I’ve renounced my religion, left my country and established myself in a new one, found my real purpose, cultivated the best relationships, transformed my attachment style from anxious to secure, and rekindled that long-lost intuition.

As a result, my life took a better turn in so many ways. 

Does that mean I haven’t made any more mistakes down the line? Of course not. 

But at least these mistakes are part of my own path.

So my goal is to lead you there by presenting various scientific research, findings, and anecdotes that are in many cases quite amusing, informative, and relevant to the young generation. 

I believe once you gain profound insights into your psych, emotional hardwiring, and toxic patterns, you can finally cultivate the critical self-awareness needed to navigate adulthood in a more intentional and fulfilling way. 

“Self-awareness is a superpower. Once you wake up to your conditionings, you’re free to consciously reshape your reality.”
– Sahara Rose

In the end, if you resonate with any of what I said or gone through, you’re in the right place and are still able to make the change.