Bryan JohnsonFounder of Blueprint and Don't Die

Deeply appreciate the kindness and encouragement so many of you have shown 🫶🏻

18 Jun 2023 · 0 min

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In this brief YouTube monologue, Bryan Johnson shares a personal reflection on how he once found excitement in being the focal point of others' hatred, describing it as energizing. He notes that this source of stimulation is now fading and no longer enjoyable. Drawing a parallel to his past habit of finding pleasure in junk food, he likens the hate-driven excitement to a form of mental junk food. Johnson expresses a desire to reprogram his brain to discover new, healthier sources of joy, shifting his focus from enduring negativity toward cultivating a community built on positive momentum and shared positivity.

I had really started enjoying being the focal point of people's hate. It felt energizing, and now it's dissipating. That's not fun. So just like Blueprint, I previously found fun in eating junk food. So maybe that's a form of junk food. Maybe I need to reprogram my brain to find a new form of joy. So maybe it was enduring the negative, and now it's building the community of the positive momentum, and maybe it's building the positive now.