I don’t often make it clear what I am choosing instead when someone learns I don’t do certain things.  It’s not really that I am choose not to do those things, I choose benefits that come.  For example, I treasure the very sensitive to impressions that come to me all the time, and what I learn through them is so valuable, I feel no sacrifice from not drinking, smoking, or having caffeine.  I choose those insights unavailable in any other way.