It seems to me that the question of what we visualize when we visualize our future selves is important. We have these sort of very vague, like, I will be rich and beautiful and popular or something. It's much more useful to be much more specific about what a day looks like. What are you spending the day? Because you might accept the Oscar on the grand stage and look at all those beaming faces and then go home to your alcoholism and your depressive, you know, whatever.
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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