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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
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Fascinating and challenging, but also sobering. Here’s how he concludes (I shared this in last Sunday’s sermon):
“I had long subscribed to a kind of Silicon Valley approach to longevity and health, believing [it] possible to hack our biology, and hack it, and hack it, until we become these perfect little humanoids who live to be 120 years old. I used to be all about that, constantly tinkering or experimenting with new fasting protocols or sleep gadgets to maximize my own longevity. Everything in my life needed to be optimized. And longevity was basically an engineering problem. Or so I thought.
My obsession with longevity was really about my fear of dying. . . . I was running away from dying as fast as I could. Yet at the same time, ironically, I was also avoiding actually living. . . . The saddest part is that I wasted so much time being so detached, so miserable, and so misguided. So much time pursuing an empty goal. . . .
I had been obsessed about longevity for the wrong reason. I was not thinking about a long, healthy life ahead; instead, I was mourning the past. I was trapped by the pain that my past had caused and was continuing to cause. I wanted to live longer, I think, only because deep down I knew I needed more runway to try to make things right.”
“I had long subscribed to a kind of Silicon Valley approach to longevity and health, believing [it] possible to hack our biology, and hack it, and hack it, until we become these perfect little humanoids who live to be 120 years old. I used to be all about that, constantly tinkering or experimenting with new fasting protocols or sleep gadgets to maximize my own longevity. Everything in my life needed to be optimized. And longevity was basically an engineering problem. Or so I thought.
My obsession with longevity was really about my fear of dying. . . . I was running away from dying as fast as I could. Yet at the same time, ironically, I was also avoiding actually living. . . . The saddest part is that I wasted so much time being so detached, so miserable, and so misguided. So much time pursuing an empty goal. . . .
I had been obsessed about longevity for the wrong reason. I was not thinking about a long, healthy life ahead; instead, I was mourning the past. I was trapped by the pain that my past had caused and was continuing to cause. I wanted to live longer, I think, only because deep down I knew I needed more runway to try to make things right.”
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