Bryan Johnson Quotes

The future of our realty will increasingly be computational, overtaking narratives

Humans prioritize what gives them status, power and respect. We're so close to a cultural shift where high quality sleep achieves those goals.

Cultural norms - and our conscious minds - consider sleep dispensible. It's a lighthouse to me.

Actually, it might even do the opposite.” Model Builder: “Our bodies turn anything we eat into the proper food it needs. You can lose weight eating whatever you want as long as you count calories and take a vitamin pill. We all know that.

The Earth has to balance its extraordinarily complex biosphere just as our body has to fight to achieve balance in what it lords over. It’s all the same. Systems balancing themselves.

The body is not a calculator. Life is not just the pursuit of quantified records.

brain is just a bunch of cells degrading together because we’re basically just an overclocked ape.

So of course some aspects of ‘optimal’ will include pain or suffering or hardship. We all know that’s how this works.

People laughed and it wasn’t just because he was in charge. They had laughed with him before he outranked them. Maybe that’s why he rose so quickly.

And we further know that the brain is stitching things together, after the fact, all to make one’s behaviors, wants, motivations, and thoughts appear to be both obvious and carefully considered. But are they?

Change is hard; being miserable is harder.

No. Unfortunately you have to come to terms with the idea that life itself is the reward. That is the song we pay

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