Bryan Johnson uses monkey bars as a metaphor for life changes: you have to let go of one bar before you can grab the next, except you can't see the next bar. The fear of losing what you know keeps people stuck, even though moving forward feels better than staying put.
For people to make a transition like the one you've made, they have to make changes. And there's going to be things that they previously enjoyed. Maybe it's drinking beer while watching a football game. Like there's things like that that someone previously enjoyed that you're suggesting if you can meaningfully shift, you'll come to a new form of enlightenment that'll make you happier.
Exactly. It's like monkey bars. So you've got your hands on two different bars. You let go of one bar, and you need to reach out and grab the next bar. Now, monkey bars are easier because you can see what the target of the next bar is. But oftentimes in life with something like this, you don't know what's going to replace your current sources of stimulation and joy. And so, like you're saying, if it's a beer and watching football, it's very hard to let go of that. That rung and reach out to the next one. You don't know what's going to replace it. So it's really just this fear of loss and not knowing where your source of joy is going to be. But I can tell you my source of it's. It is better being on this side of the equation than the other.
