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The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. But that isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fuelled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief. You get to give up on something that was always impossible – the quest to become the optimised, infinitely capable, e
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
“Aging, quite simply, is a loss of information.”
David Sinclair • Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
“Aging is characterized by a progressive loss of physiological integrity, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability to death,”
Peter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. But that isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fueled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief. You get to give up on something that was always impossible—the quest to become the optimized, infinitely capable, emot
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
These theories fit with observations and are generally accepted. Individuals don’t live forever because natural selection doesn’t select for immortality in a world where an existing body plan works perfectly well to pass along a body’s selfish genes. And because all species are resource limited, they have evolved to allocate the available energy ei... See more