At 21, he joined prog pioneers Soft Machine; at 25 formed his own group, Matching Mole; at 29, he fell out of a fourth-floor window while drunk, at a party, permanently paralysing himself from the waist down.
Also, having rubbish internet at home can help, as I can't waste time browsing the paralysing number of online streaming services.
A young woman called Sophie tells Miliband how she left school with three good A-levels, suffered paralysing depression, became anorexic and suicidal.
Jonathan Powell, the former Downing Street chief of staff, says that John Yates, the Met's assistant commissioner, presided over a "fiasco" that came close to paralysing No 10, after a series of alleged leaks by Scotland Yard.
We don't want to shut up until everyone understands that this is not a lifestyle choice or a niche thing that happens to a few wretched people in our midst but a very real, ubiquitous, debilitating, paralysing, often lethal illness that we should address and treat, not punish and marginalise.
They may not kill as many people as blowing up an aircraft, but the "propaganda of the deed" is achieved by paralysing ordinary life in a big city and dominating 24-hour news channels.Third, Western spooks say they are losing the technological edge that has enabled them to monitor the communications of potential terrorists.
Corruption was high on the agenda, following a scandal involving transport ministry officials.A general strike and political demonstrations continued in Nepal against the king, paralysing the capital, Kathmandu.
But to defy the SPD with distinctive conservative policies would risk offending public opinion and paralysing government.Ms Merkel is still Germany's most popular politician, but the economy is slowing and she leads a coalition more inclined to squabble than act.
On January 27th several thousand factory workers on motorcycles blocked a main toll road linking manufacturing zones in West Java to Jakarta, the capital, backing up traffic and paralysing the region's commerce.
But by politicising or paralysing the technocratic Fed, it could have dangerous consequences.Begin with the confusions.
THE terrorists may not have succeeded in paralysing the American government, as they clearly intended.
