I love this metaphor that you offer at one point in the book, of treating your life as a marble sculpture. One selects a way the universe will be and thereby eliminates ways the universe could have been like so many fragments of marble chiseled away. So there's a rationality involved in trying to not make especially big decisions,. Big decisions have big consequences, and then you have to take responsibility for them. And do you think most people fully appreciate kind of how extraordinary this power is that they have?
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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