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True or false? You, Brian Johnson, the man sitting across from me, one day, at some point, as of yet undefined in the
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future, you will die. False. Sold Venmo for $800 million. Has spent a fortune on a quest to stay young
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forever. Don't die is the general theme of what we're trying to do. It's humanity's only
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objective. None of us live forever except Brian Johnson. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome
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Brian Johnson. [Music] Hi guys. Okay, everybody stand up. Okay, what you're going to do is you're going
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to choose your left or your right foot. I'm going to count down from three and you're going to stay standing on your
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selected foot as long as you can with your eyes closed. Okay? Hands by your side. You can't be out. It's got to be
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close by. Your foot's got to be somewhere close by. You can't be clear out. Okay? So, just choose right or left
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foot. And those of you on the balcony, be careful. If somebody fell off, that'd be a bad
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situation. Okay. Foot selected. Let me pull out my timer. And I'm going to count the number of seconds that pass.
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Okay. Ready? 3 2 one. Close your eyes. 5 seconds. 10 seconds. And your foot can't move. Stationary.
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15. 20. Okay, we'll stop there. Who's Who's still up? Okay, good. Okay, good. We'll do it one
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more time. All right, you got No, no, stay up. This is a biological age test. As you age, part of your brain that
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keeps you well balanced atrophies and you can't maintain a balance very well. So, kids are very good at this. As you
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age, you get worse. Okay. So if you are uh between 15 and 30 seconds, that's roughly age 20 to 40. 7 to 15 seconds,
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you're between 40 and 60. And 0 to 7, you're 60 plus as an age category. Okay. Yep. All right. Ready? Okay. You can
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choose again. Right or left foot? Your foot's got to be stationary. You can't move it around. Arms close by. Okay.
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Three, two, one, go. Five. 10. 15. 20. Make it to 30, you guys. 10 more seconds.
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30. Okay, cool. Good job, you guys. All right, you can take a seat. This is the neat thing about biological age testing
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is you of course know when you were born and therefore you know how many years you've lived. You can look at yourself
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in the mirror and say, you know, I have a few wrinkles or a few spots. But actually in your body, your organs have
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different ages. So, your lungs are a certain age, your brain, your eyes, your ears, your gums, your pancreas, your
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liver, they're all different biological ages. And it's really important to know,
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for example, my left, so I'm 47. My left ear is 64 years old. It's because I shot a lot of guns as a
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kid. I was right-handed like this with a lot of exposure in my ear. And I also listen to a lot of loud music. And so
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that's really important for me to know because when you have hearing loss and you don't correct for it with a hearing
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aid, it can affect it can result in cognitive decline. So this applies to all things about the heart. And so a
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couple years ago, I posed this question. Are we really the first generation who won't die?
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It's kind of the coolest question in existence. What matters more than our experience, our ability to live? And so
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to do this, I wanted to do an experiment. So, I measured the biological age of every organ in my body
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as much as we could. We then went through the scientific evidence and we tried to reverse and or slow down my
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speed of aging. And what I've been trying to do is create a sport or a new genre of what it means to be healthy.
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And so, I put my biomarkers out and said, basically, I have the best biomarkers of anybody in the world.
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Anyone's willing, anyone's, you know, capable of competing with me. But try to make it like a quantified thing where
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it's just like I'm healthy or not. And so it's been a really fun journey. And so today I'm going to tell you guys in
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just a few minutes time everything I've learned about health. I'm going to compress it into some very simple
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lessons for you because health is really complicated. It's very confusing. It's all consuming. It's overwhelming. Cool.
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Okay. So first uh who got eight hours of sleep last night? Uh, 7 6 5 4 3 Thank you for your honesty. Two. There.
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Thank you, sir. One. Yeah, I appreciate that. Okay. Who has a confession to make? Who recently polished off a bag of
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chips, ate some ice cream, and then jammed some Twizzlers? What did you do, sir?
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Chips. A whole bag. One sitting. All right. Great. Who else? Yeah. What did you do? Gelato.
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Gelato. Yeah, I get it. Okay, cool. Okay, so you guys, the single best thing I've learned out of everything I've ever
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done is your resting heart rate before sleep is the best thing you can do for your health. Hands down. Okay, so here's
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what you're going to do tonight. Before you go to bed, you're going to get a baseline read. You're either with a
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wearable or just on your fingers on the neck. You're going to lay down on your bed, take a few deep breaths. You're
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going to find your resting heart rate. Let's say it's 60 beats per minute. Okay, your goal over the next month is
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to lower your heart rate by 10% or so. So, if you're 60, be down to 54. And here's how you're going to do it. If
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your bedtime's at 10 p.m., eat your final meal of the day at 6 p.m. After 6, no more food, no more snacks. Okay? By
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doing that, you have you allow your body to digest your food. And you're going to
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see that as you do that, your heart rate is going to go down. And the reason why
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heart rate is so important is the lower your heart rate is, the better your sleep. The better your sleep, the better
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your willpower. Did you know if you don't sleep, your prefrontal cortex goes offline and you lose your willpower. So
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when you're trying to not eat the cookie, you're powerless. You can't do it. It's gone. So sleep is the best
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performance-enhancing drug in the whole world. It's the thing you want to do every night. So first thing is eat your
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final meal 4 hours before bed. Number two is you need to turn your screens off an hour before bed. Okay? Okay, now I
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realize that's hard. We are all addicted to our phones, but that 1 hour is so important because you have to give your
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body ability to wind down. And if you're scrolling or working, you're going to be
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in a roused state, which boost your heart rate. Anything that boosts your heart rate before bed is going to be bad
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for you. Okay. Three is you want to have uh amber and red lights in your house. No blues like these are very blue. Uh
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you want to have u be mindful of your stimulants. So noon thereabouts is when you want to stop your caffeine intake
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because caffeine has roughly a 6-hour halflife. So if you have a cup of coffee at 4 p.m. at bedtime a half a cup of
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coffee is in your system. And then finally you want to have some kind of windown routine where you read a book,
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go for a walk, do breath work, meditate, but something to calm yourself down. Okay, now just be sober with me for a
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minute. I promise you this is the single best thing you can do for your health. And if we're honest,
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the majority of you in this room have some moderate to serious mental health problem.
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Tell me I'm wrong. Waiting. It's true. Like you sample your friends. Like it is a pretty tough
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environment right now. We are on our phones all the time. We don't sleep well. We eat junk food. It's very hard
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to take a moment to ourel to be healthy. I promise you, optimize your resting heart rate and it's going to be the very
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best thing you do for your mood. If you're experiencing anxiety or depression or you're having some other
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kind of difficulty, I'm telling you, high quality sleep is the thing. And culture that tells us right now that you
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have to grind and not sleep is a lie. It's a bad deal for you. You can be ambitious. You can have unhinged
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ideas about the world and still sleep. Okay. So, I've got 20 seconds left. Who's going to commit to this?
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Yep. Who's not? So, I can shame you. Okay. Why? Why are you not going to commit?
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I'm a startup founder. Okay. There we go. This is Okay. This is it, you guys. Here's it. Yes, you're a
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startup founder. Okay. The narrative is you have to martyr yourself, literally martyr yourself to achieve success.
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That is not true. You will be a better founder slashparent/partner slash whatever if you prioritize your
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sleep. I'm telling you, it is a false idea. Don't fall for it. Don't die. Yes, it's about health. It's
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also the next major ideology for the human race. We are giving birth to super intelligence.
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Our ideas about reality are going to shift. Existence itself will be the highest virtue.
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Don't die is the next major ideology on par with democracy, capitalism, Christianity, Islam. It is the next
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thing we do as a species. So friends, be well. Go to bed on time. Am I seeing this? You committed? All right, guys. Be
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well. [Music] [Applause]