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#289 — Time Management for Mortals

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Fact That You Have to Miss Out on So Much

Our finitude, the fact that we have to miss out on so much, is what gives weight to our choices. It's perhaps the thing that makes life juicy in the first place. We act as if it's a huge problem that we only get a short amount of time and that it's a kind of insult that it gets taken away from us by death. But when we say that our lives are short, short compared to what?

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