This is Optimal Living Daily episode 1012 that most important choice you can make,

and- are you the exception or the rule?

By JamesAltecherofJamesAltecher.com and I'm your very own personal narrator,

Justin Mollick, reading to you from some amazing blogs and books to help you optimize your life.

Today's two posts come from JamesAltecher, host of the JamesAltecher show that's a podcast,

a popular one actually and he's had some huge guests on the show,

like Henry Winkler, The Fonz, Tony Hawk, Tyra Banks, Wolfgang Puck,

Tony Robbins, and a lot more. And his posts are always interesting, you never know what you're

going to get. Now let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

The most important choice you can make by JamesAltecherofJamesAltecher.com.

Oh, I forget. You don't even know. I have Terminal Stage 4 cancer, he said.

My friend had popped up on my text just a few hours before this. You around later? Sure.

We hadn't seen or spoke to each other in 18 years, it's because my hold grudges.

18 years ago I got upset at him about something that now seems really unimportant,

so I stopped talking to him for 18 years. When his text popped up I figured,

why not? I also figured I'd apologize to him. He came over, he had once built a coffee shop,

so I had gourmet coffee delivered. We used to hang out with each other five days a week when we

both moved into the city back in 1994. Around 1999 was when I last saw him. What? Yeah, I got diagnosed

seven years ago, thyroid cancer. They removed it, but then three years ago it had spread to

everywhere else in my body, and they gave me basically no time at all to live. You seem good,

I'm on this clinical trial, and so far so good, but he said 100% of people eventually develop

resistance to this drug at some point, usually 18 months, he said. I'm at 24 months now,

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