Podville #12: Steven Bartlett’s conversation with Bryan Johnson, a man who is doing his best to live forever.
05/14/24 • 67 min
The benefits of experimenting on yourself — Does everyone have the same kind of mind, or do different minds have fundamental differences in the way they work? Is the desire for self-preservation an obstacle to higher intelligence? — Are the results of a super-disciplined life really worth the sacrifice and effort? — Is it even possible to stop and/or reverse aging? — Control over the emotions as well as the thinking mind is essential for discipline — What are emotions? — Is the foundation of the mind completely beyond the mind itself? — Why should the mind be running the show? — Two major energy drains: trying to convert other people and putting up walls against them — inducing courage and vision by studying what the greats of the past have done and the difficulties they faced — Doing something impossible not only affects your life, it moves all of humanity forward — How crafting a new life affects others — facing resistance — How friends and society react to different levels of one’s success — Life versus death as a motivator for decisions — The desire to see what's happening next keeps you hanging around — “Trying not to lose” versus “intending to win” — AI as an aid to intelligent experimentation on oneself — Power of the mind to optimize the experience of being alive — Staying free from depression by staying free from the influence of circumstance — “Seeing that so many things I used to worry about are meaningless today, how much of what I'm worried about now is also meaningless?” — Can the fudamentals of how the mind works be changed? — Does changing the mental filter change the underlying reality? — The amazing levels of freedom that can be experienced anytime by simply being present, here and now — All experience happens here and now — “Believing you are outside of God is the fundamental error” — How human desires affect human intelligence — Since AI has no human desire (self preservation, reproduction, tribalism, etc), wouldn’t the conclusions reached by AI be different from conclusions reached by the average human? – Death as a motivator for the highest enjoyment of life.
Original Podcast: The Man That’s Ageing Backwards
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The benefits of experimenting on yourself — Does everyone have the same kind of mind, or do different minds have fundamental differences in the way they work? Is the desire for self-preservation an obstacle to higher intelligence? — Are the results of a super-disciplined life really worth the sacrifice and effort? — Is it even possible to stop and/or reverse aging? — Control over the emotions as well as the thinking mind is essential for discipline — What are emotions? — Is the foundation of the mind completely beyond the mind itself? — Why should the mind be running the show? — Two major energy drains: trying to convert other people and putting up walls against them — inducing courage and vision by studying what the greats of the past have done and the difficulties they faced — Doing something impossible not only affects your life, it moves all of humanity forward — How crafting a new life affects others — facing resistance — How friends and society react to different levels of one’s success — Life versus death as a motivator for decisions — The desire to see what's happening next keeps you hanging around — “Trying not to lose” versus “intending to win” — AI as an aid to intelligent experimentation on oneself — Power of the mind to optimize the experience of being alive — Staying free from depression by staying free from the influence of circumstance — “Seeing that so many things I used to worry about are meaningless today, how much of what I'm worried about now is also meaningless?” — Can the fudamentals of how the mind works be changed? — Does changing the mental filter change the underlying reality? — The amazing levels of freedom that can be experienced anytime by simply being present, here and now — All experience happens here and now — “Believing you are outside of God is the fundamental error” — How human desires affect human intelligence — Since AI has no human desire (self preservation, reproduction, tribalism, etc), wouldn’t the conclusions reached by AI be different from conclusions reached by the average human? – Death as a motivator for the highest enjoyment of life.
Original Podcast: The Man That’s Ageing Backwards
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Podville # 11: Jocko Willink’s conversation with Jiu-Jitsu Master Rickson Gracie
Exercising control through awareness of breathing, even during jiu jitsu championship matches.
The great value of a culture of honor, respect, and humility.
Responsibility goes with being the best and/or the leader
Rickson’s father Helio, himself a great champion, de-emphasized winning: “one if you win, two if you lose."
You can learn much more by losing than by winning.
Natural talent can be a problem, because easy wins early on can make you believe you don’t have to work.
Differences between average people and super-successful people.
Using rage to break out of inertia — Rage not sustainable.
Energy management through breath; wind = Spirit, breath = soul — exhaling the negative, inhaling the positive.
Your toughest competition: you — You have to go through suffering to get beyond it — Aim for overcoming weakness, not for attaining greatness — The ultimate value of competing with yourself only.
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Podville #13: East Forest’s encounter with the famous sage, Mooji
On living beyond a personal identity.
The incredible durability of the personal identity — How extreme sports force you to be present — Accessing the space, the zone without crutches, like techniques, other people, or sacred locations — Every moment is an opportunity to live in that space, in the zone — Individuality is terrified of being destroyed — Can I afford to be without personal identity? — Once you lose the identity, when you get it back you are not the same — Fear of change is really fear of change that is not under my control — What if I am getting my three wishes in every moment? — Various kinds of prayers and their results — Adversity is an opportunity to rise to another level — Seeing the test as an opportunity when in the middle of it is a key to victory — Moving too fast is a major obstacle to noticing the zone — Everyone feels like an outsider, including all the tribal insiders — All judgments are BS, even my own — How to become wise without studying books — People near death are able to converse in a more meaningful way — Effect of the breath on experience
Original Podcast: Ten Laws Podcast - Mooji, Light of Truth (#222)
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