#188 Bryan Johnson: Five Habits for Longer Living

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

What can you do (or avoid) tomorrow to guarantee you can live longer?

In this episode, Bryan Johnson reveals the five simple disciplines you can start doing to live healthier and longer. Johnson shares what his daily routine looks like, the ins and outs of his experimentation process, and why he gave his father plasma.

Johnson also opens up about the constant hate he receives from people online, how he deals with it all, and what he wishes he'd known when he sold his company.

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.

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Timecodes:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:03:45) On biographies

(00:08:03) On depression and coping mechanisms

(00:14:18) Self-destructive behavior and how to pitch Blueprint to someone

(00:26:50) What a day looks like on Blueprint (exercise and what to eat)

(00:42:06) How to turn Blueprint protocols into habits

(00:45:17) Embracing the hate

(00:49:07) The downsides and lessons of making money

(00:59:22) The five habits

(01:05:09) Why does posture matter?

(01:07:48) Relationship between biological health and sexual health

(01:09:50) Hair-loss prevention

(01:15:46) Sunscreen, plastics, and other miscellaneous impacts on aging

(01:18:30) How will AI help us?

(01:22:10) On success

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, phase one is like do something that is unrecognizable in your time and place.
0:06.0	Okay, so we've seen this throughout history.
0:08.0	Phase two is people come with pitchforks.
0:12.0	Phase three is you've got to survive a whole bunch of attacks. You know like the power to be you're
0:19.2	going to want to start taking you down. If you get past phase two and phase three you get to open up a little bit and you
0:26.0	kind of have some open horizon and so that's where I'm at now is I've survived
0:30.1	the the major dunk you know where people try to cancel me in society I've survived
0:35.3	several attempts at takedowns and now I'm still at it and so I'm really happy I'm on to
0:41.1	stage four now and now it's just opening up into a bigger gameplay. Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a podcast about mastering the best of what other people have
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1:46.1	Today my guest is Brian Johnson.
1:49.0	In 2007, Brian founded the Payment Processing Companyree, which almost killed him through depression.
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