Bryan JohnsonFounder of Blueprint and Don't Die

My pace of aging is 0.76. This means I get October, November, and December for free

7 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Bryan Johnson shares that his biological aging rate is measured at 0.76, meaning he biologically ages only 277 days per calendar year, effectively gaining the months of October, November, and December for free. He introduces the metaphor of an "aging bank account" where individuals could track "aging points" similar to money, weight, or social media followers. Johnson argues that if society could monitor and manage its aging speed, priorities might shift away from the pursuit of wealth and status toward a collective focus on human potential and the future of the species.

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I'm currently aging at 0.76 for every 365 days a year I age 277. So I basically get like October, November, December for free. And then for the months I do age then the progress is to reverse that aging that has happened so that I can be the same biological age. We all know how much money is in our bank account. We know how much we weigh, we know how many social media followers we have but we don't know our speed of aging. Like how fast are you aging in this moment and if you had aging points like your bank account would you spend them a certain and so if we have aging points we have an aging bank account then society could shift instead of us saying we're going to be a martyr for wealth or status or whatever. Would it change in that balance and would it more be about humans? We become obsessed about what we can become as a species, not what our technology can become.