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