In this brief interview excerpt, host SPEAKER B asks Bryan Johnson whether he fears death. Johnson responds that he does not fear death, stating he loves life and does not experience fear when contemplating mortality. He distinguishes the emotion of fear from his attitude toward death, implying that his lack of fear does not stem from denial but from a different emotional relationship with the concept of death.
Do you fear death?
No, I love life. Is there a distinction between those two? I know what fear feels like, and I don't experience that emotion when contemplating death.
But I'm trying to work out, is there deeper down in the recesses, is there something. Is there a denial of death? Is there a fear from what's coming in the future driving you at all?
My main source of inspiration is having read hundreds of biographies. The talent is the ability to hit the target no one else can. Genius hits the target no one else can see. And the majority of us in life, we play the games that society gives us. So that's hitting the target currently, social media, followers and this and that. So people like to play games where points can be kept and you can be compared to people and ranked. Genius is a different game. It's trying to find things that don't exist. And you need to have the stamina and fortitude to go out and pave your own path and do things that are not recognized, appreciated, or valued, even in your lifetime. And so, to me, reading biographies is about people who do that.
