Dave Asprey
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The decline that some people think happens before death is something that we want to avoid.
So my goal, I'd like to die at a time and by a method of my choosing.
So when I'm done, I'm done and I have no issues with it.
On to the next.
Yeah.
And that said, I have a lot of good stuff to do.
Yeah.
So fearing death though is very dark because if you live in fear, it doesn't work.
The reason it doesn't work
It's kind of funny.
Heavily Meditated became the top-selling philosophy book in the country.
It's a meditation book.
And I'm like, what is going on here?
And it's because a lot of Buddhist scholars are saying, Dave, the theories in there make the ego make sense.
So your mitochondria create your egoic behaviors.
And they're running this operating system that says, number one,
If something is scary, run away from, kill or hide, and turn on all the threat stuff.
And they're seeing this long before your brain gets any signal.
And then the next thing they do is they say, is it food?
Can I eat it?