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Susan Cain On The Great Ache That Binds Us

The Rich Roll Podcast

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Is Memento Mori a Driver of Our Creative Impulse?

The word longing, it literally means to grow longer and to reach for. There is a sense in which we're all reaching to get to this other place - that's what propels us forward. I actually tried practicing Memento Mori while I was writing the book. It basically means remembering death as a way of like understanding how precious life is.

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