Bryan Johnson reveals the five simple disciplines you can start doing to live healthier and longer.
Johnson shares what his daily routine looks like, why he stops eating at 11:00 am, the ins and outs of his experimentation process, why he measures almost every organ in his body, and why he gave his father plasma. Johnson also opens up about the negativity he receives online, how he deals with all the attention, and the loneliness he’s experienced since he sold his company.
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Bryan Johnson is the world’s most measured human. Johnson sold his company to PayPal in 2013. Through Project Blueprint, Johnson has achieved metabolic health equal to the top 1.5% of 18-year-olds, inflammation 66% lower than the average 10-year-old, and reduced his speed of aging by the equivalent of 31 years.
Johnson is also the founder of Kernel, creator of the world’s first mainstream non-invasive neuroimaging system, and OS Fund, where he invested in the predictable engineering of atoms, molecules, and organisms.
Here are a few highlights from the episode:
The most important thing you can do in any given day is to get high-quality sleep. When you have bad sleep, you have substantially less willpower.
With Blueprint, I wanted to demonstrate that an algorithm takes better care of me than I can myself.
I break myself out into different persons and I decide which versions of me have authorization and when. Because who’s in charge? 10:00 PM You who sets the alarm for 6:00 AM, or 6:00 AM You who wants a few more minutes with the snooze button? And so you need to make those decisions on who’s in charge because if you just let it roll out, the present you is always going to win and always get what they want at the expense of other versions of you that have your better interests at heart.
I’ve tried to build a life where I make zero decisions of doing things I don’t really want to do…I just don’t behave in ways that I regret anymore.
I have such a positive relationship with the hate. It energizes me. I am endlessly amused by it. Depression was a much better troll than anyone online. My depression could eat me up pretty efficiently. It knew the zingers and the dunks.
Money is extraordinarily complicated and it drives people to do crazy things. And if you don’t determine your objectives in life, money will run you.
