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Is "memento mori" is the ultimate life hack?




KEY TAKEAWAYS


  • Confronting our mortality can help clarify what truly matters beyond superficial achievements.


  • Memento mori, a reminder that you will die, can motivate us to live more fully.


  • A memento mori practice can include writing your eulogy, imagining your 90-year-old self’s best life, and considering life from a cosmic perspective.

 
 

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One  objective:
facilitating  those,
who are so motivated,
to enjoy the benefits of becoming  humble polymaths.   

“The universe
is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”


—Eden Phillpotts

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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

―Vincent Van Gogh

" The unexamined life is not worth living."  

Attributed to Socrates​

“Who knows whether in a couple of centuries

there may not exist universities for restoring the old ignorance?”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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