📝 How to Get Stronger, Live Longer and Find Meaning

Wisdom

Russell Conjugations: Beware the choice of words, we use different language to keep our brain at ease, but it can also harm us. For instance, you order a ‘flame-kissed steak’, not ‘flesh of a dead cow’. On the other hand, the Fed engages in ‘quantitative easing and economic relief’, not ‘money printing’ – Eric Weinstein

“The meaning of life is the struggle to impart meaning to meaning” – Eric Weinstein

We’re All on Autopilot: Our brain screens out almost all of reality and automates most functions; this allows us to selectively direct our attention and computational resources. It is conventional wisdom that we should think before we act. However, civilization advances by extending the number of important operations that we perform without thinking. – Eric Weinstein

Everything Compounds: Your existence compounds, both good and bad. Decisions in your life are rarely isolated, every decision has an abstract web of compounding connectivity. Be ambivalent about your life – good events in your life can often be dependent on the compounding effects of a regretful decision – Kieran Setiya

Adding the to world > Removing Bad: Life satisfaction is found when you add good things to the world, not by only taking bad things away from the world – Kieran Setiya

Midlife malaise: Modern-day midlife crises are less defined as a single reactionary event; but rather, a struggle to find sustained satisfaction – Kieran Setiya

Health

Don’t “Diet”: If you approach a diet with a mindset of restraint, it could counteract the benefit or objective effects of the diet – the brain is telling you to eat more food because you are telling yourself you’re being restricted - Dr. Alia Crum

Seek Out Stress: To leverage stress: (1) acknowledge that you’re stressed; (2) welcome the stress; (3) use the stress response to connect to the thing you care about (you only stress about things you care about) - Dr. Andrew Huberman PhD

Adversity Mimetics: Things that mimic biological adversity that is conducive to better lifespan and healthspan – Dr. David Sinclair

3 Ways To Train Mindset: (1) be aware that you have a mindset and your experiences are filtered (not objective); (2) think about the effects of mindset on life – is it helpful or harmful?; (3) seek ways to adapt a more useful mindset – healthy foods are indulgent and delicious, stress is natural and can help you learn & grow - Dr. Andrew Huberman PhD

A Lot of Your Body is In Your Head: Participants in a sleep study who were told they had gotten poor sleep performed worse on cognitive tasks than those told they slept well - Dr. Andrew Huberman PhD

Never Stop Playing: Animals that engage in play for the longest amount of time have the largest neuroplasticity – the brain’s ability to change - Dr. Andrew Huberman PhD

The Future of Health: We can keep our bodies healthy by eating right, doing physical exercise, taking the right medicine/supplements, and when that doesn’t work and things fail you can rebuild the body, replace cells, put in new organs and that way we’ll live many decades longer.” – David Sinclair

Easy on the HGH and TEST: “Abundance mimetics” like testosterone and HGH signal to the body that times are good which might be a short term gain but so far show no long term anti-aging benefit – David Sinclair

Risks of TRT: Sleep apnea, larger breast tissue (testosterone can be converted into estrogen), bigger prostate, shrinking testicles, increase in risk of blood clots – David Sinclair

“When it comes to knee pain, 9 out of 10 times it has to do with the ankles or the hips.” – Sal, MindPump

Sweat Now, Live Longer: Men who participate in the sauna a few times per week have about 20% less risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality caused by heart attacks – Dr. David Sinclair

Wealth

Never Talk to a Journalist: Legacy media is in the content creation game. Looking at engagement. Get engagement or get fired. Adds zero or negative value for clicks - Balaji

User Aligned Web 3.0 Content: Looking for cause-effect relationships between content and changes within a time series of data. For example, read a dose of Men’s Health articles and become healthier. Health metrics measured via Fitbit data - Balaji

The Meaning of Life | The Weinstein Series | Episode 6: Eric Weinstein rejoins Robert Breedlove to explore why consciousness evolved, if reality is just a logical construct, how our choice of words shapes our life, and the meaning of life as 'the struggle to impart meaning to meaning' (download)

How to Shift Out of the Midlife Malaise | Kieran Setiya on The Art of Manliness with Brett McKay: What is the meaning of life? We can't answer that question specifically but we can guide you towards discovering the answer for yourself. (download)

The Meaning of Life | The Weinstein Series | Episode 6