Kwame Christian: We spend so much of our lives kind of frittering away time, right? You know, stuck in traffic, honking the horn, you know, banging our head. I'm always amazed like it in airports that there's an announcement that the flight is delayed by 20 minutes or something. People would quite happily fritter away that same 20 minutes if they were at home without this sort of idea that this 20 minutes is absolutely crucial," he says.
Life without death, says philosopher Dean Rickles, is like playing tennis without a net. In his new book, “Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful,” Dean challenges us to rethink what it means to get the most out of each day.
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