Bryan JohnsonFounder of Blueprint and Don't Die

Blueprint is painful but I've never been happier

15 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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In this segment of his YouTube monologue, Bryan Johnson explains that the majority of his Blueprint bio‑hacking regimen feels painful. He describes deliberately remapping his mental associations so that intense activities—such as a 16‑minute high‑intensity morning workout followed by an additional hour of exercise and a strict 2,000‑calorie daily diet—are experienced as pleasurable rather than distressing. While many would expect such a regimen to produce sadness or a dreary mood, Johnson claims the opposite: the systematic re‑conditioning of pain has made him the happiest he has ever been.

Almost everything I do on blueprint therapies is painful. And I've had to remap my associations to find pleasure in pain. Because whether it's your high intensity workout in the morning, you're like, all right, Here we go. 16 minutes of hardcore. And also an hour workout on top of that. Plus, I'm going to be hungry all day because I'm only doing, you know, 2,000 calories and, yeah, like, whatever. But, yeah, it's really just this remapping, and this leads people to assume sadness or some other kind of dreary state. Weirdly, I've never been happier in my entire life.