Artificial Intelligence, Cryogenics, & Procrastination with Wait But Why’s Tim Urban
The Science of Success
Matt Bodnar
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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In this episode we discuss what Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking all consider the single greatest threat to humanity, why “death” is not binary event that makes you transition from being alive or dead at a specific moment in time, we ask if you would spend $1000 on a chance to live forever, we look at the biology behind cryogenics, vitfrication, and putting your body on biological pause, and we explore why poverty, climate change, war, and all our problems melt away in the face of one massively important issue with our guest Tim Urban.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Science of Success with your host, Matt Bodner. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the Science of Success. I'm your host, Matt Bodner. I'm an entrepreneur and investor |
| 0:17.4 | in Nashville, Tennessee, and I'm obsessed with the mindset of success |
| 0:21.3 | and the psychology of performance. I've read hundreds of books, conducted countless |
| 0:25.5 | hours of research and study, and I'm going to take you on a journey into the human mind |
| 0:30.0 | and what makes peak performers tick, with a focus on always having our discussions rooted |
| 0:34.5 | in psychological research and scientific fact, not opinion. |
| 0:38.8 | In this episode, we discuss what Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, and others consider |
| 0:44.3 | the single greatest threat to humanity. Why, death is not a binary event that makes you |
| 0:49.5 | transition from being alive or dead at a specific moment in time. We ask if you could spend $1,000 |
| 0:55.5 | on a chance to live forever, would you take it? We look at the biology behind cryogenics, |
| 1:00.8 | vitification, and putting your body on biological pause. And we explore why poverty, climate change, |
| 1:05.8 | war, and all other problems melt away in the face of this one massive issue with our guest Tim Urban. |
| 1:13.2 | The science of success continues to grow with more than 725,000 downloads, listeners in over |
| 1:19.5 | 100 countries hitting number one new, noteworthy, and more. A ton of our listeners are curious |
| 1:24.1 | about how to organize and remember everything, how to keep track of all this amazing information. I get tons of listener emails asking me, Matt, how do you organize yourself? How do you keep track of all the incredible knowledge you get from reading hundreds of books, interviewing amazing experts, listening to podcasts, and more? Because of that, we've created an amazing free resource for you. And you can get it for free by texting |
| 1:45.2 | the word smarter, that's S-M-A-R-T-E-R, to the number 4-4-2-2-2. It's a free guide called How to Organize and Remember Everything. Again, to get it, all you have to do is to text the word smarter, that's S-M-A-R to the number 4-4-2-2-2. |
| 1:43.3 | Or go to scienceof-success.com. |
| 1:46.3 | That's scienceof-success. |
| 2:04.8 | CO and put in your email. In our previous episode, we discussed whether time speeds up as we get |
| 2:10.7 | older, why your life story only makes sense looking in reverse, whether or not brain games |
| 2:15.7 | actually work, the importance of proactive |
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