Bryan Johnson Quotes

People think that achieving similar health results to mine is out of reach, but most of the benefits are actually achievable through simple habits and life systems.

The fastest path to the right answer is to pose the wrong question to the internet.

Remember that most everything you now believe won’t be believed in 100 years.

Less sleep does not get more done. It just shrinks the value of what’s happening.

It may seem unthinkable...but in just a few years time, I predict that behaviors causing biological degradation such as trash food, alcohol, sleep deprivation, high stress, and sedentary living will culturally transition from acceptable to low status and insane.

Magic mushrooms did a 'force quit' to my thought patterns. Nothing else has done that before.

We are the first generation who won’t die.

the printing press
enlightenment
industrial revolution
flight
personal computer
moon landing
internet
artificial intelligence
don’t die

You can conquer existence through belief, power, by letting go or not dying.

Self destructive behavior is our species' Achilles' heel. We are the only species that actively engineers its own demise.

We can overcome this. It's necessary for our survival.

My self destructive behaviors are at an all-time low. I just don't do things anymore that unnecessarily cause me to die.

It took years to get here. Occasionally my mind still suggests a debaucherous act, but it’s quickly shot down. The math doesn't work. The aftermath is misery.

I'm hopeful about the future because culture is shifting. Health is becoming high status. It a useful and powerful currency. Health isn't just our bodies but society, our planet, and our technology.

Self destruction is looking increasingly foolish and low status. This shift will accelerate and eventually existence itself will become the highest virtue.

Peak intelligence is understanding you’re idiotic.

Sometimes it's easier to change belief systems than to change the rules.

Who's controlling who?

Your phone is always there…
in your pocket,
in the restroom,
at the stop light.

Stealing sleep, focus, and energy.

First principles thinking gathers information, assumes nothing and builds.

In Zeroth principle thinking, you eagerly don't know and explore.

AI is creating a Zeroth-principle reality.

addiction is the dominant control structure of our late stage capitalism. the smartest algorithms in history are not designed to help us solve problems or become better, they are designed to hijack our reward systems and make us worse and miserable. a species that cannot resist dopamine hijacking cannot align itself and with a superintelligence.