Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about contemplating your own death,

how to use death to stay motivated for life. In order to do effective self-actualization work, I think that it's very important to have a keen sense that your life is short and just how short it is.

And I think that this is one of the things that people at large are missing. Our friends are missing this, our parents are missing this,

our parents are missing this, people who piss their life away are missing this very important element in their life.

They're not really conscious of the fact that they only have a little bit of life left.

They're not conscious of the finality of their life, and they're not conscious of the finality of their life,

and they're not conscious of the fact that there's only one.

There is no second chance.

There's no warm-up round. this is it.

That's one of the really fascinating things about life

is that we're just born, and then at some moment,

we just happen to become conscious, self-conscious, and we realize like, well, here I am, I guess I'm here,

I don't really know where I came from, or how I came into existence, but I must be here and I can reasonably assume that I probably won't be here for very long

given what I see around me given that I see death all around me. I see animals dying, plants dying, things dying, cars

getting crushed in automobile accidents and airplanes getting destroyed and blown up and so we see wars we have a rich history of

death and destruction over the last several thousand years alone so just looking at

all this stuff you start to scratch your head and it's like, hmm, I'm probably not going to be here for much longer.

And there is no real reason for me to assume that I would ever get a second chance.

And there's actually a rich history of this.

So in philosophy and eastern traditions

and other contemplative traditions for thousands of years has been a rich history of pondering

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