Bryan Johnson read Mark's book about his father's quiet acts of love and wanted to be that kind of dad. For decades, leaving his marriage and his born-into religion felt impossible. When he finally saw he could do both, everything changed.
I'd read this book, A Good Man. So Mark wrote this book about his dad and it was basically a love note and he chronicled what his father did. He would slip him notes under his door and say, like, I saw some cuts on your face. Here's some new razors and some shaving cream. His whole life he did these things. And I was so touched by his father and I wanted to be like him. That I would be a divorced dad and not do that was just like unthinkable. You having in that religious community of leaving all my family and my friends, that was unthinkable. It felt like I was trapped from two unthinkable positions. And so the moment that it all changed is when I felt like I could finally muster clarity of thought and realize things would actually be better to not be a part of either the relationship or the religion that I could actually achieve the things I had in mind in a different way.
