Bryan JohnsonFounder of Blueprint and Don't Die

Imagine if we reframed our naughty habits as violence towards self?

15 Jun 2023 · 0 min

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Bryan Johnson argues that human alignment is humanity's most important pursuit and proposes a three-step method: create a concept, assign it a number, build a system around it. He suggests reframing personal bad habits as self-directed violence to harness the emotional weight of that word and change behavior.

What's the coolest thing we could do as a species? Human alignment. How do we, as a species, create the most extraordinary future? One way we could do it is just three simple steps. Create a concept. In my case, I'm saying nonviolence number two is you give it a number. And then three, you give it a system. Imagine if we reframed our naughty habits as violence towards self. Now we think of violence, we think of something getting beat up or something like that. What if we change the concept?