Bryan Johnson explains why he publicizes his longevity work despite media backlash. When one person shows something is possible, many others can do it too. He sees the hate as powerful group therapy and embraces it.
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I do find quite. Quite fascinating on how you're doing this is that you've chosen to do this very publicly. And I personally find it completely fascinating what you're doing. But I do know that you're getting a lot of media backlash. What was the driver to do this publicly? Because you could have just said, I'm gonna do this, but I'm not gonna put myself out there. And you really have kind of thrown yourself out. So what was the. What's the driver to do that?
Humans are amazing in that once one person demonstrates something is possible, many more humans can do the exact same thing. It's just one human needs to punch through the perceived limitation. And that's what I've been trying to do. And so naturally, with this is going to come a lot of hate and a lot of vitriol because it's uncomfortable to reconcile with this. And that's wonderful. It's group therapy, and it's powerful and it's meaningful and it's. I love it. I love every second of it.