We all have a linear mindset, which means we tend to think tomorrow and the next day and next week and next month and next year will look like last year, but of course we're living during a time of greatest change.

Welcome to the Art of Charm. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger. Today we're talking with Peter Diamandis, founder of the Express Foundation and author of several books including Bold and Abundance.

Both recommended reading if you're into futureology, you should listen to this episode. If you want to hear some crazy and very possible futureology predictions such as living 500 years, colonizing space advances in AI and human achievement, how society will need to evolve to respond to increased automation and artificial intelligence as well as how we can make ourselves more competitive in the long and short term.

And something called linear thinking and why this type of thinking and mindset causes us to miss the mark when we think about technology, innovation and the advancement of the human race.

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Also at the Art of Charm.com slash podcast, you can find the full show notes for this and all previous episodes of the show. All right, here's Peter Diamandis.

One of the many reasons I wanted to talk to you today is because I found that you're in kind of an interesting in between space where you're building the ex-prize with millionaires billionaires or giving up what seems like a really nice place of living and kind of an apartment just to make it happen, not caring, going back almost into student mode in a lot of ways.

And then creating the ex-prize with the goal of private spaceflight. And then you've got a lot of sacrifices, a little bit of luck, but probably not as much as some people would.

I didn't want it. Right. Right. Yeah, not as much as you would have wanted for sure. And I think there are lessons there. And I think you created space for allowing something like the ex-prize to actually happen, not that it happened without you, but that you made it happen in a way that resulted from hustle and grind, but also because you were willing to kind of do.

Pretty much anything to get there. Do you really want to live more than 500 years? Is that true? Yeah, I mean, I think when I was in medical school, I remember looking at the body in a very different fashion.

There was a TV show that was on that was talking about the notion that certain life forms, turtles, whales, sharks lived hundreds of years as long theoretically 700 years.

Question asked was they can't why can't I? And in medical school, I realized, you know, it really is a hardware software problem. Yeah.

And I think that we are going to learn how to extend the human lifespan indefinitely. And so I picked a ridiculous number of 700 years because that's how long the longest, you know, large life forms supposedly living.

And of course, if you can live 200 years now, you can live forever. So, but it's something I do desire. And I think we're live now during the most exciting time ever in human history.

We're going to see the universe. We'll be able to understand the foundations of physics. You know, we're going to transform what it means to be human. And it's all happening now.

And I think it's happening in the next 30, 40 years. But yeah, I'd like to live longer than that. Is it because you want to see the results of your work or your curiosity?

It's curiosity. It's all about every year is much more fascinating than last. I don't know why. I guess if you are sick and ill and tired and you don't want to go on.

But if you have your health. And if you can be vibrant and your mind can be alive and learning, why wouldn't you want to continue?

I think so part of it is having a healthy extended human life span. It's not just about living old.

Right. It's not about being 80 for six of your 700 years or 80 year old physical condition.

So you're watching your kid, you're watching the moon landing, you're enthralled. You tell your mommy want to be an astronaut. And she says you got to follow your dad and be a doctor.

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