I want you to think about the shortness of life, and I’ve been on this theme for, I know, a long, long time. But once you understand that life is short, once you understand that living your life to please other people while betraying your own ethical ambitions is a waste of time. And once you remember that tomorrow could be the end, hopefully, it won’t be, and I’m sure it won’t be, but no one knows when we check out. No one knows when our last date will be. And it is a false assumption that we will all get to live into our 90s. And once you really build intimacy like emotional intimacy, not only intellectual, emotional intimacy with the fact that this could be one of your final days, then it’s not a depressing thing, it becomes an inspirational thing. You start to live by your own drum beat. You start to listen to your own authentic voice. You start to be braver. You start to be more loving. You start to be more kinder. You start to do bolder things. You start to seize opportunities because you’re not in limbic hijack over failing, which is one of the big reasons why we don’t take great steps.
