Bryan Johnson argues founders treat their brains worse than athletes treat their bodies, staying up late then making major decisions hungover. He calls himself a professional rejuvenation athlete and says framing health as athletic training gives you permission to actually do it.
Previous years. As an entrepreneur, I always kind of found it weird that my fellow founder friends would want to go out at night and party and stay up late, and then the next day they would be doing really important things at their companies, making really big decisions and whatnot. I thought of myself as a professional athlete, a professional entrepreneur, and my brain was my most precious resource, and to be in a good spot was going to be valuable. I've used the frame of I'm a professional rejuvenation athlete, that I take this seriously, that I behave as an athlete. But we don't have a culture now that honors somebody's devotion to their trade that they're really going to prioritize sleep and diet. If you're serious about this, you can be a professional athlete. And if you do, you're gonna have cover. So a lot of people I've talked to, they do a lot of things for the health and wellness, and their partner's like, hey, you're killing me. Like, stop. It's too much. And then they say, well, they just send the link to my website, like, but you know what? It could be so much worse. Look at this guy. But it does give people cover that to start doing things in that kind of fashion.
