Jeff Krasno

I'll just be that chubby kid that was moving around from country to country. I'll really never be quite good enough. I'll never be liked. And because of that, I will compensate and essentially... compromise my authenticity at every single turn in order to be liked. That was the story that I told myself about myself for almost five decades.

I'll just be that chubby kid that was moving around from country to country. I'll really never be quite good enough. I'll never be liked. And because of that, I will compensate and essentially... compromise my authenticity at every single turn in order to be liked. That was the story that I told myself about myself for almost five decades.

So realizing, having the awakening that change was actually possible was essential to my journey. And I think it's essential to many people's journey because we have been taught as part of kind of 20th century science that essentially our genes determine our fate.

So realizing, having the awakening that change was actually possible was essential to my journey. And I think it's essential to many people's journey because we have been taught as part of kind of 20th century science that essentially our genes determine our fate.

So realizing, having the awakening that change was actually possible was essential to my journey. And I think it's essential to many people's journey because we have been taught as part of kind of 20th century science that essentially our genes determine our fate.

And, you know, this was, you know, in some ways quite an incredible revelation that Watson and Crick had in the early 1950s where they like say, oh, we found the secret to life. It's called the double helix. It's the structure of DNA. And this is how genes replicate so efficiently. And if we can just map that genome, we can discover every source of an origin of every disease.

And, you know, this was, you know, in some ways quite an incredible revelation that Watson and Crick had in the early 1950s where they like say, oh, we found the secret to life. It's called the double helix. It's the structure of DNA. And this is how genes replicate so efficiently. And if we can just map that genome, we can discover every source of an origin of every disease.

And, you know, this was, you know, in some ways quite an incredible revelation that Watson and Crick had in the early 1950s where they like say, oh, we found the secret to life. It's called the double helix. It's the structure of DNA. And this is how genes replicate so efficiently. And if we can just map that genome, we can discover every source of an origin of every disease.

And then we can address that by addressing those particular genes and those underlying nucleotide sequences. Of course, once we actually mapped the human genome and finished in about 2004 with the Human Genome Project, we realized that we had the same amount of genes as a guppy. We had less than a grape. We had about 22,300 non-redundant protein-coding genes. And so...

And then we can address that by addressing those particular genes and those underlying nucleotide sequences. Of course, once we actually mapped the human genome and finished in about 2004 with the Human Genome Project, we realized that we had the same amount of genes as a guppy. We had less than a grape. We had about 22,300 non-redundant protein-coding genes. And so...

And then we can address that by addressing those particular genes and those underlying nucleotide sequences. Of course, once we actually mapped the human genome and finished in about 2004 with the Human Genome Project, we realized that we had the same amount of genes as a guppy. We had less than a grape. We had about 22,300 non-redundant protein-coding genes. And so...

It's not really the genes, really. It's the expression of the genes. And this is where a lot of my more scientific study started to bleed into revealing of some of the greater mystical truths about what it is like to be human. This started to populate this concept called the Tao of Health, which has a number of different axioms or tenants to them. One of them is impermanence.

It's not really the genes, really. It's the expression of the genes. And this is where a lot of my more scientific study started to bleed into revealing of some of the greater mystical truths about what it is like to be human. This started to populate this concept called the Tao of Health, which has a number of different axioms or tenants to them. One of them is impermanence.

It's not really the genes, really. It's the expression of the genes. And this is where a lot of my more scientific study started to bleed into revealing of some of the greater mystical truths about what it is like to be human. This started to populate this concept called the Tao of Health, which has a number of different axioms or tenants to them. One of them is impermanence.

We briefly referred to that at the beginning of the podcast. But this was a revelation that, of course, the Buddha had 2,500 years ago sitting under the Bodhi tree. In Sanskrit, I think it's called anika. But the fact that everything in the universe, including you and me and this rug, this camera, et cetera, is impermanent. It will eventually decay.

We briefly referred to that at the beginning of the podcast. But this was a revelation that, of course, the Buddha had 2,500 years ago sitting under the Bodhi tree. In Sanskrit, I think it's called anika. But the fact that everything in the universe, including you and me and this rug, this camera, et cetera, is impermanent. It will eventually decay.

We briefly referred to that at the beginning of the podcast. But this was a revelation that, of course, the Buddha had 2,500 years ago sitting under the Bodhi tree. In Sanskrit, I think it's called anika. But the fact that everything in the universe, including you and me and this rug, this camera, et cetera, is impermanent. It will eventually decay.

So clinging onto anything and craving anything is just futile and will lead to a tremendous amount of suffering because we are all impermanent. That really violates my sense of identity, right? Because, like, I wake up in the morning. Andre wakes up in the morning. We tootle into the bathroom. We sort of, like, flex a tiny bit and be like, there's Andre. Don't jump me in here.

So clinging onto anything and craving anything is just futile and will lead to a tremendous amount of suffering because we are all impermanent. That really violates my sense of identity, right? Because, like, I wake up in the morning. Andre wakes up in the morning. We tootle into the bathroom. We sort of, like, flex a tiny bit and be like, there's Andre. Don't jump me in here.

So clinging onto anything and craving anything is just futile and will lead to a tremendous amount of suffering because we are all impermanent. That really violates my sense of identity, right? Because, like, I wake up in the morning. Andre wakes up in the morning. We tootle into the bathroom. We sort of, like, flex a tiny bit and be like, there's Andre. Don't jump me in here.