Rich Roll

Like these are antidotes to what ails us, but self-optimization is so self-regarding.

It's at cross purposes with that goal.

My takeaway is this.

Brian Johnson recently posted his list of the things that he thinks contribute to longevity the most.

After spending $2 million a year for the past couple of years, here are his conclusions.

essentially everything that he listed was everything that we already knew like sleep you know like don't eat too late like none of them had had to do with expensive exogenous compounds or like these elaborate interventions they were all like really basic stuff by extension

We watch the enhanced games.

We see a bunch of, for the most part, like lackluster performances.

And so what have we learned about what drives optimal human performance?

Getting good sleep, training really hard, allowing yourself to recover, like all the things that like the most elite athletes in the world who are winning the gold medals are doing.

And it's not about these enhancements.

And if you're in search of self-esteem, if your life lacks meaning or purpose or an anchor, maybe consider pursuing your sport or training or fitness or whatever well-being practice you're engaged in in a non-enhanced state and do it.

as an act of self reverence, as an act of service to yourself, not for narcissistic looks maxing purposes or because you're trying to take a shortcut, but because you're trying to extract the greatest amount of meaning in grappling with discomfort.

And that is the entire enterprise.

It's not about how quickly you can get from A to B or

how quickly or how much you can outpace somebody else and distinguish yourself as special to extract a certain outcome so that you can be regarded in a certain way.

It's about your relationship with yourself.

How are you honoring yourself?

What is the degree of honesty in that relationship?

The more you kind of pursue these things from a place of integrity, the more value and self-esteem