Aubrey de Grey - How to Become a Successful Heretic

Aubrey de Grey speaks on how to become a successful heretic.

1. Be right (diligence before oratory). Sean Carroll: "Being a heretic is hard work". It's not enough to disagree with mainstream thinking - you actually have to be correct. "Galileo was a heretic, but understood the reigning orthodoxy at the time better than anyone else." Very few people work that hard: "Many casual heretics can't be bothered."

3. Be a doer (as well as a talker). One reason to take de Grey seriously is the number of people who've taken him seriously, pledging huge sums to support his research. You have to work very hard to raise these sorts of sums... and fundraising is a form of doing, even if it doesn't feel like it.

8. Be inspirational (and have a team that's organizational).

9. Be selfless (remember that control is only a means to an end) - Don't control all your work too carefully - you make progress by reliquishing control to other people to take your idea forward.


Interview buy Adam A. Ford - held at Polytechnic University Hong Kong.
Please subcribe.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Aubrey de Grey
• debating
• changing peoples minds
• being right
• luck
• longevity
• SENS
• Successful Heresy
• Polytechnic University

[gammypage]

SOUND PRODUCTION!. You really need to look up basics, stop having interviews in such noisey places please/ use the right mic settings.

[TheRationalFuture]

@gammypage Don't worry dude, there are interviews which were done in doors with ideal sound conditions, just watch those and skip over the ones you don't like - perhaps stick to Fox News & NBC, perhaps you work for them. I have been lucky to get interviews as it is, so I take what I can. Either I wait for a sterile environment for every interview getting way less content, or I take the interviews in noisy environments. Background noise does not bother everyone.

[gammypage]

@TheRationalFuture There's no point photographing a beautiful scene with scratches all over the lens... you're losing content through distortion. U saying perhaps I work for Fox or NBC shows u're getting annoyed about honest feedback from your intended audience which is not so rational. I for one don't personally know anyone else who has shown an interest in SENS, even after me talking about it.

[gammypage]

@TheRationalFuture Also sorry I might have been a little curt myself. The interview itself is interesting with questions that haven't been asked by other interviewers. I'm young and can make it out, but my Dad's in his fifties and is hard of hearing and I know he wouldn't be able to.

[gammypage]

@TheRationalFuture I think that it's great that you're doing interviews but that sounds like a bit of a cop out to me. I don't work in professional audio or video production, but it's common sense to me that had this interview been done indoors in a hallway or something it wouldn't have all that noise, Also u did an interview in what looks like a noisey hotel restaurant, the hallway to the rooms or even the hallway to the bathroom would have been much quieter.

[gxaeplk]

Good interview, bad audio. Thanks for posting! Nice outro music too, can you please identify it (title, artist, etc...)?

[Floxflow]

Interesting career story. Life is very much about chances. It seems Aubrey grabbed them.