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LIFE IS SHORT: The Upside of Death

The Next Big Idea

The Anxious Achievers Podcast - The Next Big Idea Podcast

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Dean Rickles is a professor of history and philosophy of modern physics at the University of Sydney. He says he has extreme death anxiety, which would keep him up at night. His book Life is Short shows how it's essential that you have this fairly finite span of life in order to have a meaningful life. "I'm personally not a huge fan of this whole dying thing"

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