Most Replayed Moment: This Longevity Protocol Actually Works! - Biohacker Bryan Johnson

What mission are you on, and why does that mission matter to you but also to everybody else listening to this right now? My mission is for the human race to survive and thrive. And it's figuring out what we do that creates the highest probability of that being possible. And why specifically have you taken on that mission versus any other mission you could have committed your life and time to? Why you? And I want the long answer to this. Yeah. The all the context going right back to the beginning. I had this transformative experience when I was 19 years old. I went to Ecuador, and I was a missionary. And I lived among extreme poverty, dirt floors, mud huts, people not knowing how they're going to make ends meet day to day. And I came back to The United States, and my family was poor growing up, but it was opulent compared to Ecuador. I couldn't believe that I had lived in a bubble my entire life, unaware of circumstances of other realities like where I was at in Ecuador. And I was facing decisions in college, what to study, what to become, who I was going to be, you start creating these identities. All I could identify was this fire that had lit within me that I wanted to spend my life trying to improve in the human race at a global scale. I don't know where it came from, but it it just coming back from Ecuador, it seemed like that was what I want to spend my life on. I didn't know what to do. I was 21 years old. I didn't have any ideas. And so I thought I would become an entrepreneur, make a whole bunch of money by the age of 30. And then with that money, try to figure out a plan to do it. And so lucky me, I sold BrainTree Venmo at at 34 and made a few $100,000,000. Sold for $800,000,000. Right? Mhmm. And then I set my mind to this question of what one thing in existence could I do that would be relevant in the twenty fifth century? I grew up on biographies, and so I'm accustomed to thinking about things on a century's time scale. So doing things that not that matter in the news cycle tomorrow, but that intelligence in the twenty fifth century would say, you know what? We appreciate what happened in the early twenty first century. You've only really been been following this protocol for a couple of years now. Right? Yeah. I mean, my so I guess I I really do understand myself as on a singular mission for intelligent existence to thrive. That is what I am. That is what I'm doing. That's what I'm pursuing. Nothing else matters to me. The question, the ultimate question, I think, in you know, that you just said all these people are gonna say I'm weird or whatever else. There's …