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Bozoma Saint John on the Power of Embracing Memento Mori

The Daily Stoic

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Living the Width of It

Diana Ackerman says she doesn't just want to get to the end of her life and find that I have just lived the length of it. "I'd never considered the idea of the width of it, you know, meaning that I want to fail every day," writes Ackerman. Seneca: Wouldn't it be a shame to be one of these people that get to theend of a long life and all they have to show for it is the number of years?

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