Dr. Peter Diamandis
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first heard Dec 2024
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And in this book- Did you ever fear death though? Like around- I lost my fear of death doing DMT, dimethyltryptophan, right? Which is the active ingredients in ayahuasca. And I don't want to go down that journey too much. How old were you? This was seven, eight years ago.
But it was a... It's a dissolution of the ego and a connection with a universe of love and God at its most epic proportion. And it was extremely powerful for me. And I lost that fear of death. One of my motivations in longevity is my why. And so coming back to this, it's like, To get people to put in the work to live a longer, healthier life, you've got to have a reason for it.
And when I work with my Abundance360 community, my fountain community, I'm like, okay, let's discuss this. If you had 10 healthy years, what would you do with it? If you had 20 healthy additional years, what would you do with it? When I ask people if you had 50 additional years, their mind breaks. It's like you can make up stuff for 10 or 20 years, but 50 years?
like it becomes really hard for people to think that far out. And I find that fascinating. But if you've got a why, and one of my whys was, you know, I've been a space cadet since I was born in 61, Apollo lands on the moon in 69, Star Trek comes out in 67, all those things influenced my life. And it's like, We're on the verge of humanity becoming a multi-planetary species.
We're just talking about the SpaceX launch, going to the moon on a recurring basis. We're going to go to Mars. It's amazing. It's like the kid in the candy store here is like, I wanna see as much of that as I can. It's one of my whys is to be here alive, to see humanity become a multi-planetary species, to be part of that. I want to set up the first town on the moon. I want to mine asteroids.
I mean, crazy, right? But at the end of the day, this is the future we have potential for, and you can dream big if you've got those extra decades.
I don't know, I think I would sort of be tracking into my 80s. Really? Yeah.
You have to believe this is possible. One of the reasons I wrote this longevity guidebook was to give people an understanding that what's possible. And then you need to have the mindset of like, so for me, Open the Space Frontier, I have two 13-year-old boys. I had my kids when I was 50. And that's one of the, I think one of the great longevity therapeutics is having young kids.
And I want to see them, you know, I want to meet their kids and their grandkids. And And there's lots of other whys that I've created for myself, but it has to do with, I think this is the most extraordinary time ever to be alive. And I want to see as much of that as I can and live in that future. So that why is important. You know, when it's six or 7 a.m. in the morning,
and it's comfy in bed and you're a little bit groggy and you would set yourself up to go to the gym. Do you work out in the morning? Yeah, it's hard to do it at night. Yeah, it is. But the why of getting out of bed to go and work out needs to be there, right? I mean, if you're 25 and you're dating, you know, your why might be procreation or landing that partner. But then when you're
At night, you're at a restaurant, you've got this basket of bread in front of you. And this glass of wine brought out before any of your food lands. And you start chomping down on that and spiking your blood sugar. Or at the end of dinner, when this dessert comes and lays in front of you and it's sitting there staring at you, saying no, you need a why.
You need a why and you need habits that are gonna serve you. And you know this.
So one of the things I talk about in the mindset chapter here, right? And there's a chapter on mindset and the hormones of happiness. is that our brains, we're all hearing about large language models and neural nets and AI all the time. Our brains are neural nets, right?
We have a hundred billion neurons, a hundred trillion synaptic connections that shapes everything you do, see, feel, hear, all of that is upstairs in your three pound mass of jelly. And our minds and our mindset is being crafted and shaped every day.
The way that Google and OpenAI and Anthropic and XAI, how these companies shape their large language models is by showing them data, data, data, and they're collecting. So if you want to train a neural net how to recognize a cat, you show it photo of a cat after a cat after a cat, and it finally learns furry pointy ears, whiskers, tail.
But at the end of the day, if you show it a dog, it's never seen a dog before, it's gonna say it's a cat, right? So the question is, how are we training our neural nets? And we train our neural nets, our mindset about what we believe is possible for us, in the world, in our happiness, in our longevity, by virtue of who you hang out with, right? What you listen to.
Congratulations on listening to this podcast. What you read, right? What's on your walls. All of these things shape how you think.
And so if you're watching, you know, the crisis news network, what I call CNN, every night where you're getting every murder, every crooked politician, you know, into your living room hour after hour after hour and living color because their business model is to deliver your eyeballs to their advertisers. We pay 10 times more attention to negative news than positive news, right?
It's just, so we're being just inundated by negative news. And if you're old and you're hanging out with people who are dying and reading the obituaries, you're just compounding this. And you're like, I must not have much time left. Most of my friends are dying.
You're fully sympathetic instead of parasympathetic. Yes. So these things are critically important and things that we can change. I mean, you know, I talk about a few of these things, like in the chapter on diet, right, a few simple things that I want to share that people can implement right now. When you sit down at dinner tonight, take a few deep breaths, just in and out.
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