Ben Greenfield

one of the best things that a human being can do and one of the most rewarding and meaningful things that a human being can do is to have children.

Become the most impactful people that they can be so they can go forward and make the world a better place using what you've taught them and do so a long time after you're dead and do so also if you've done a good job training them through your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren and beyond.

When you have children, you all of a sudden are surrounded by little human beings who you're training and educating and teaching and developing to

Become the most impactful people that they can be so they can go forward and make the world a better place using what you've taught them and do so a long time after you're dead and do so also if you've done a good job training them through your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren and beyond.

So I think that we should be putting as much energy into our family and our children as we should be putting into the science of health optimization.

And then secondarily, I mentioned earlier, I'm a Christian, so I also believe in an afterlife.

So I think that we should be putting as much energy into our family and our children as we should be putting into the science of health optimization.

And I believe that in the same way we should engage in the type of physical life

fitness and mental rigor i was describing earlier we should have spiritual fitness baked into our lives that we're caring for this one invisible spark inside of us that will arguably go on to exist for eternity and so for me that looks like morning spiritual time reading the bible praying connecting to my creator singing songs

And then secondarily, I mentioned earlier, I'm a Christian, so I also believe in an afterlife.

And I believe that in the same way we should engage in the type of physical life

fitness and mental rigor i was describing earlier we should have spiritual fitness baked into our lives that we're caring for this one invisible spark inside of us that will arguably go on to exist for eternity and so for me that looks like morning spiritual time reading the bible praying connecting to my creator singing songs

rinsing, washing, and repeating that with the family, going to a church where I get to sing and hang out with other people who care for their souls, and basically placing just as high an emphasis on this one immortal part of me as I do on all of the covering and the shell, which eventually, maybe it is going to be 120 or 140 or 160 or 200, who knows, but eventually it's going to be gone.

rinsing washing and repeating that with the family going to a church where i get to sing and hang out with other people who care for their souls and basically placing just as high an emphasis on this one immortal part of me as i do on all of the covering in the shell which eventually maybe it is going to be 120 or 140 or 160 or 200 who knows but eventually it's going to be gone

It's not going to be around forever.

Physics and entropy dictate that that just can't happen.

So I think that focusing on faith and focusing on family lets me see this through a different lens.

And honestly, I think it's a really encouraging lens because I don't have to desperately grasp at straws.

It's not going to be around forever.

Physics and entropy dictate that that just can't happen.