All right, today's book of the day, Life Changing One. I really mean it on this one.

Seneca on the shortness of life. I picked this up, I was traveling in London and I

went to Waterstones. That's like their equivalent of Barnes and Noble. And I saw

you know I already carry so many books with me when I travel. I was like ah do I

want to buy other books but I found these little teeny ones up in their

classic section. It's always amazing to me. Classic books. These are books that

stood the test of time two, three thousand years. They're in some little

rinky-dink corner and that nobody ever goes to it buys. And then all of the

mark, it just shows you how much marketing influences us you know the good

books. This book that's stood the test of time. And I open it up and I'm like oh

man, how is this not the book that everybody's reading. He says you've heard the

saying that life is short but he says it's not that we have a short time to live

but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough and a sufficiently generous

amount has been given to you for the highest achievements if your time is

well invested. But when it is wasted in heathless luxury and spent on no good

activity, we are forced at last by death to realize that it has passed away

before we knew it was passing. So it is we are not given a short life but we make

it short and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it. Now if you look at my

notes here you can't really see it but this whole about well the second half

isn't as good in my opinion but the first half it's like I'm trying not to

circle every part of this. Now so I'm gonna go through this because the book is

called on the shortness of life. Life is long if you know how to use it. I you

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