Timothy Chklovski

I’ll go first: “Hi, my name is Bryan Johnson, and I have a problem. I’m riddled with cognitive biases that I can’t detect, define, or fix. My brain and my five, limited senses put me in a myopic frame of reference where only I appear at the center. My belief systems force me to believe untrue facts, but I still hold onto them with a death grip. My brain spends heaps of its precious energy trying to figure out the present and dwelling on the past, but is terrible at planning for the future. I am irrational, illogical, hypercritical, and find most pleasant the information that best conforms to my worldview. My memory is faulty, and I don’t even know where the gaps are. I fill in the rest with made up stories, like our eyes do with their tiny blind spots. Of the hundreds of cognitive biases and default errors I am aware of, I can’t stay focused on any single one long enough to overcome them. I only imagine in terms of things I’m familiar with. And worst of all, despite these admissions, I believe everyone else’s reality is even more distorted…

These are the ideas that consume me. I can’t stop thinking about them. Dreaming about them. I burn inside with an ambition that feels out of place in the early 21st century.

These are the ideas that consume me. I can’t stop thinking about them. Dreaming about them. I burn inside…