Beyond Success

#91: What Longevity Science Gets Wrong About Life & Death


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Here's a harsh truth that might set off your internal defenses:

Longevity protocols might add more years to your life, but they can't, by their very nature, give you more life. That might sound like a contradiction, but it's the truth.

The dirty little secret behind the entire world of biohacking and longevity science is based on a lie. The biohacking protocols, supplement stacks, and longevity practices are a symptom that only deepen the disease.

In fact, they only exist to distract you from the root of the problem. Fear is a cruel mistress. And you're terrified of your own mortality.

It's natural to fear your mortality. It means you're human. But it's also what turns your fear into a cunning beast that dupes you into wasting the precious moments you have today for something that longevity cannot shield you from.

You could have the most dialed in longevity protocols on the planet and you'll still die. And until you face the fear of your own mortality, you're just stretching the time before you lay on your deathbed filled to the gills with regrets.

Longevity can't give you more years of a well-lived life if it's only purpose is to distract you from your mortality.

But today's episode shows you a different way. A different way to approach death. And a different way to live life so when your time comes, you accept your death and do so without any regrets.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include:

  • Why following biohacking trends and longevity protocols is actually a disguised fear you haven't identified yet (1:06)

  • The #1 biggest misconception with the longevity and biohacking industry (2:30)

  • Why the most important things to a life well lived are absent from every optimization dashboard (6:26)

  • The insidious way "Immortality Projects" (which come from fear) convince you that you're ambitious or driven when in reality they're simply ways to avoid your deepest, darkest fear (7:20)

  • Here's the brutal truth behind why adding more longevity protocols and more optimization cannot, by its nature, calm your death anxiety. And in fact, longevity protocols can actually make your death anxiety worse (11:43)

  • The dirty R-word that the longevity industry hates but is the only way to actually increase the amount of life you get on this Earth (17:07)

  • Why the avoidance of development and the avoidance of death are the same root problem running in your internal system (24:23)

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