I'm going say something at the risk of perceived assholery. Know that's not the intent. I want to suggest to you that you can be a top performer while prioritizing your health. Currently, that is not what people believe. 

People believe you have to martyr your health to achieve anything great. 

I've personally had the best, most prolific three years of my life. I think it's because I made health my #1 life priority. 

. from beaten-down, depressed, overweight and aged 43 year old, to having the best comprehensive biomarkers of anyone in the world. Quantitatively, the healthiest person on the planet. The gold metal champion. 

. in just two years, with no prior experience, built the world’s most evidence-based, tested, affordable, and precise nutrition food company, paired with extensive biomarker testing.

. from being unknown to becoming the world's top longevity influencer and creating a new professional sport of it 

. nudging the global conversation towards health and wellness 

. creating the philosophy Don't Die (dd), a legitimate contender for the world's next major ideology 

. building a robust, rapidly growing global dd community 

. winning a savage extortion attempt that lead to unhinged negative press while at the same time achieving the world's best ever recored sleep score 

. maintaining my cool while being swarmed by hate and ill will

. being a devoted father 

. in 2025, will continue building dd towards becoming humanity's primary operating system; 

. spearhead cleaning up the world's toxic food supply

. expand food, nutrition, protocols, AI health coaches, and hopefully some biotech to help as many people as possible achieve similar health to mine 

Many of the above things originate from zeroth-principle thinking. First-principle thinking deals with known-knowns. Zeroth-principle thinking is unknown-unknowns. 

This is the Schopenhauer insight “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”

Talent is first principle thinking. 
Genius is zeroth-principle thinking. 

Zero is the greatest revolutionary of all time, opening new frontiers in math, philosophy, physics, science, economics, religion, and art.

What is happening now, or could be happening now, that we can't see? The future is always present. It's only a question of who can see it. 

What I personally value most is the contemplation I did around when the 25th century looks back on this moment, the years 2020-2100, they're going to compress our century into two, maybe three things of relevance.  Just like when we look back at the previous centuries. So what are those two or three things? 

I think they'll say two things happened: 1) the species transitioned from death is inevitable to Don't Die and 2) humans birthed super intelligence. 

What I'm proud of is connecting the dots between the human race needing a new ideology (Don't Die) to survive itself while we give birth to superintelligence and then making that idea tangible, memeable, and actionable.

I don't think I would have been able to see or do the above things had I been sleep deprived and cognitively impaired. Or with mental health challenges. 

It came from the mental clarity that comes with pristine health. 

We need to see clearly as a species. At least enough of us. 

The world is overflowing with talent. Yet so much of that talent is suppressed and under utilized because of health debauchery.  Being blinded to the larger aperture of clear-headed thinking. 

The consequential nature of this moment cannot be overstated. If we are to overcome our primitive selves and win the opportunity to keep playing this game of consciousness, we need all the human talent possible to step up and play with their best abilities. 

Begin with your health and then start from zero: what's there but can't be seen? What can be seen but is ignored and forgotten? 

The most obvious to me: existence is the highest virtue.  

This is true yet we live the in opposite; celebrating habits and lifestyles that diminish our precious existence. 

So what do we do? 

rage, rage against the dying of the light,
become a practitioner of the don’t die ethos,
caring for yourself, others and the planet,
and honor existence as the highest virtue.

because we are…

at war with death and its causes,
building towards an infinite horizon,
and fighting for the freedom to exist as long as one chooses.
why? Because we have things to do tomorrow