Layers of Truth

Bryan Johnson on Truth: “The deeper you go into a given thing, the closer you get to the (I don’t want to call it the truth because I don’t know if there is such a thing as a truth), but there are the 5 Levels of

What is a healthy chocolate?

From Bryan Johnson, levels of the chocolate:

  • LEVEL 1: Chocolate is good for you. A snickers bar isn’t that bad!
  • LEVEL 2: Any brand advertising “dark chocolate” 
  • LEVEL 3: Un-dutched dark chocolate 
  • LEVEL 4: Un-dutched dark chocolate, tested for heavy metals 
  • LEVEL 5: Un-dutched dark chocolate, tested for heavy metals and from specific regions of the world with the highest polyphenol density

reccision

Every time you down a layer, you increase the level of precision.

I’ve learned to never accept the first level/statement of a given thing. There are always a few levels to dig. And even then, you’re not even certain you’ve landed, you’re just probably in a better spot than where you’ve started.

5 Levels of

This format was originally by Wired. I like this format of explaining things. Example:

I saw this from Madhav’s LinkedIn post: https://www.madhavmalhotra.com/speaking-challenge.html

You can use this idea to be a better Teacher.