Be less hard on yourself

There's great work by my colleague and NYU Adam Alter on palliative care, where you're surveys people who are weeks from the end. And they have a lot of regrets. More than anything, their number one regret is they wish they'd been less harsh on themselves. They were living their lives for other people as a huge regret or society. When someone dies and you realize the finite nature of life and that we all have the same end coming, I think it's liberating.

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