DON'T DIE: Dialogues

by Bryan Zero Johnson

Introduction

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Biology has proven time and time again that aging is a choice, not a fate.

Some people are born into this world and never once question their narrative. To them, the world is not a causal nest of discoverable principles—it just is. However, the mindset of an explorer is altogether different—a wondrous thing. It wants. It craves. It is never satisfied until it encounters something different and never before seen.

the world is not a causal nest of discoverable principles—it just is.

PART I: MORNING

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1 What Else Was Left to Do?

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But unfortunately, it looks like we’ve torn our ACL by letting our tools destroy, consume, and shape us.

I believe the great explorers of our age and tomorrow’s age will succeed when they close their eyes and set sail inward.

I strongly believe that we need a major cognitive revolution if we are to solve the global challenges we face in our immediate and long-term future. Our species evolved before, and we can do it again, but we can’t wait a million years. We must accelerate evolution.

The most important tool at our disposal is adaptability. We need to be able to adapt as fast as change.

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2 The Gang Gathers

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3 Last Chance Saloon

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You have enough creatine flowing in those veins you could supply Gold’s Gym for a week.”

Beta blockers banned for shooting events.

(He had already had his 60 mg caffeine ration for the day.)

The very knowledge of the increased difficulty of the task made me overthink it.

But sometimes it’s easier to shake belief systems than it is to shake the rules.”

Once you time bound an infinite game, it does in fact turn into a finite one. To be played, optimized, and conquered. All one must do is defeat the time bound.”

The most predictable person is a dead person.

Evolution did not prepare us for the modern world. We are too tempted. Always. Personally, I have a catastrophic and seemingly irreconcilable goal alignment problem within myself. Who’s in charge and when? And how is that question/conflict to be resolved? Recently I put my conscious mind into purgatory, and I don’t regret it for a second. I don’t have to ask it for permission anymore. I don’t need its approval.

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” —A.N. Whitehead