How To Cope With The Shortness Of Life - Dean Rickles | Modern Wisdom Podcast 568
Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney and a Director of the Sydney Centre for Time.
Life doesn't last that long. The ever present spectre of death looms large, even if you life to be 100. This can feel like a tragedy in many ways. What use are our efforts if they'll all be turned to dust eventually? A philosopher is needed here, to give us a fresh perspective.
Expect to learn why keeping your options open is a path to an early grave, how you can remind yourself of how miraculous it is that you're alive at all, the solution to living a listless, unintentional life, whether death is actually the only thing that gives life any meaning, the danger of being a sailor without a journey or a route and much more...
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00:00 Intro
00:24 Is Life Actually Short?
05:20 Seneca’s Thoughts on Living
11:29 The Paradox of Choice
18:25 How Does Accepting Mortality Make Life Better?
24:16 Why Goals Bring Balance
33:20 Danger of ‘Bulletproofing’ Yourself
38:43 Allowing Society to Destroy Your Personality
48:12 Practical Tools to Live Better
58:46 Where to Find Dean
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