This is the only level that does not happen inside your body. Longevity is still written off as a wellness fashion or a rich man’s hobby, and that is exactly what keeps the money, the laws and the best minds away from it. The more of us who live this way in the open, the harder it becomes to ignore — and that pressure is what moves research from decades to years, and prices from millions to something ordinary people can pay. Start with the people you already have. Then the field. Then the culture.
3 progressive levels, the Bridge of Prevention running across all of them, and a final
move. It is the same shape as the map in the book. Open any level to see what is inside it.
This is the only level that does not happen inside your body. Longevity is still written off as a wellness fashion or a rich man’s hobby, and that is exactly what keeps the money, the laws and the best minds away from it. The more of us who live this way in the open, the harder it becomes to ignore — and that pressure is what moves research from decades to years, and prices from millions to something ordinary people can pay. Start with the people you already have. Then the field. Then the culture.
Open any part of this level to see what is in it.
01
Longevity Community
5 things
It starts with the people you already have around you. One person you bring in is worth more than anything you post.
Aubrey started the whole craziness around longevity, and almost everybody in this field will tell you he is the one who inspired them. He also carried our quest a long way — when we needed to reach somebody, he wrote the introduction, and Dave Gobel came to us that way. So I asked him the question I had been carrying since the first week: if the science is there, why is almost nobody acting on it? He named it denial. I said we were also programming ourselves in the bad direction, and he gave me the word that matters back — “Yeah. Self-programming.” Which is the good news, because anything you programmed can be reprogrammed.
We’re now in a position where we do know how to develop technologies that will bring aging under comprehensive medical control, and we’re not trying hard enough — because we’ve had thousands of years of psychological denial.
Aubrey de GreyBiomedical gerontologist · founder of Longevity Summit Dublin, where the quest beganOn a walk in Los Gatos, California, April 2024
What an NPC actually is, and why it is not an insult
An NPC — a non-playing character — is somebody living the script they were handed.
Not a stupid person. A person who was never told there was a choice.
We have all had that script handed to us: thousands of years of programming which says that
ageing is natural and therefore good, that death is natural and therefore good, and that there is
nothing to be done about either. It is denial, taught carefully, generation after generation,
until it stops sounding like an opinion and starts sounding like the truth. Ask most people
whether they would like 20 more good years and watch how quickly they change the subject.
A player is somebody who noticed the script and put it down. Turning an NPC into a player is
therefore not an argument you win — it is reprogramming, the same reprogramming you had to
do on yourself, and it almost never starts with information. It starts with somebody near them
living differently and being visibly happier for it.
“The biggest risk today? Living like an NPC — a non-playing character in your own
story.” — Marek Piotrowski, TEDxSGH, Warsaw, December 2025.
02
Advocacy
8 things
Ask more of science, governments and business — funding, laws and attention — so that what is coming arrives inside our lifetimes rather than after them.
Demand more from science
Demand more from institutions
Reach governments
Reach businesses
Funding for the field
Laws that let it move
Executives who put their weight behind it
So the therapies arrive within our lifetimes
I’m not saying everyone needs to want to live indefinitely… I just care about freedom of choice… I think we should liberate people to be out there and actually reclaim this number one human right, which is the right to live.
Allison DuettmannForesight InstituteHarvard, Boston, November 2024 · shortened from one answer
Marek on this
I am not asking anybody to want to live for ever. I am asking that it be a choice, rather than something decided for us by how slowly the research gets funded. Allison put that better than I have ever managed to.
03
Culture
2 things
The end of the game: a world where health, longevity and joy are simply how people live, and not a privilege for the few who can afford it.
A new culture with longevity, health and joy built in
Longevity for everyone — not only for the few
Let us co-create a new culture with longevity, health and joy built into it. Inspire the masses, make them fall in love with longevity, and then everything changes — the money, the attention, the support all go to the longevity field. And we can start doing it now, together.
Marek PiotrowskiLive Beyond · the questFrom his talk “How to grow longevity” · Longevity Summit, Dublin, 2026
Why this one matters to me
This is the end of the game as I understand it. Not a treatment and not a clinic — a culture, in which living long and living well is simply what people do, and nobody has to be brave or rich to choose it. Everything else on this map is a move. This is what the moves are for.
Show another quote — Nathan Cheng
My co-founder at Vitalism Foundation, Adam Gries … calls it the billionaire paradox … Warren Buffett famously said, ‘Everyone would give their entire net worth or all their money to be young again.’ They will say this, but Warren Buffett has, I think, probably invested 0% of his money.
Nathan ChengFounder of the Longevity Biotech Fellowship · BostonHarvard, Boston, November 2024
Marek on this
We heard a version of this everywhere we went, and it is exactly the gap this level exists to close. Money and laws follow attention, and attention is something ordinary people make. That is why the last level of the map is not about your body at all.
Marek on stage around the world, with moments from the one-year father-and-son quest where the Longevity Game was born — what the Game is, what the Map is, and how it all fits together.
