This is Optimal Living Daily, Where the Wealth was All Along by David Cain of Raptitude.com,

and I'm Justin Mollick, your personal narrator, and we're going to get right to it as we optimize your life.

Where the Wealth was All Along by David Cain of Raptitude.com.

I keep having this idea, not that I think it's true, that when you die, you appear in a talk show studio,

and everyone is clapping. A host shakes your hand and asks you to sit down and the both of you

go over how you think you did.

On a large screen, they play a long montage containing some of the more significant moments in

your life. You and the host, along with the audience, look on as you make pivotal choices,

overcome dilemmas, and meet the people who would become your friends and partners.

The film includes a lot of personality-defining moments,

such as when you made the choice to embrace what became your art or your calling,

if you had one, or when you took on a long-term responsibility that became a part of who you were.

You also get to see, for only the second time,

the moments in which your most important relationships

went from superficial to true. Everyone in the studio is moved. The members of the audience have

seen many episodes of this show and were once on it themselves. The overall tone of the production

is quite pleasant and earnest.

Clearly, everyone is happy for you, celebrating your life rather than judging it,

and probably remembering similar moments from their own reel.

The montage also covers things you missed, many of the experiences and relationships that didn't happen,

but could have if you had accepted or extended a particular invitation, if he had made a particular effort at small talk instead of

sinking into another painful silence, if he had bought that piano after all, if he had

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