EFR 769: Embracing Mortality - A Guide to Living with Purpose and Authenticity From a Dying Man with Dr. Mark Goulston
Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning
Chase Chewning
5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In loving memory of Dr. Mark Goulston.
Listen in as Mark joins us for a profoundly enlightening discussion on mortality, sharing his personal experiences with a terminal illness. He offers a refreshing perspective on how acknowledging our finiteness can peel away the layers of our personalities, helping us to discard the need to prove, show, hide, or please, and allowing our true selves and potential callings to shine through. We also touch on the visionary approaches of icons like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, considering how facing our own end could lead us to live with more purpose and clarity.
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In this episode, Mark explains...
- Embrace mortality to live with purpose and clarity
- Vulnerability and emotional expression can transform relationships and personal growth
- Accepting mortality allows for peace of mind and a focus on meaningful actions
- Open, honest conversations with youth can foster connection and understanding
- Mentoring others and sharing experiences enrich both personal and communal growth
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| 0:00.0 | The following is an operation podcast production. |
| 0:04.0 | One of my specialties was I was a deaf and dying specialist. |
| 0:10.0 | I focused on suicide prevention. |
| 0:12.0 | None of my patients died from suicide and... So I focused on suicide prevention. |
| 0:12.6 | None of my patients died from suicide in 30 years. |
| 0:15.7 | So I learned something about that. |
| 0:17.3 | How do you get through to people who are feeling suicidal and hopeless |
| 0:20.6 | and have a real special passion for veterans and military because of the rate of suicide there. |
| 0:26.0 | And also I did house calls to dying patients to try to help them, oh I guess find peace, |
| 0:31.0 | find meaning, find something or other. |
| 0:33.2 | So I, you know, being bathed in all this. |
| 0:35.9 | It's the kind of irony that I'm now facing my own mortality. |
| 0:39.7 | I have an illness called high-risk MDS, which is Myeloadisplastic Syndrome, and it becomes acute Myeloid |
| 0:47.3 | leukemia in the not-too-distant future, kind of one of the tougher forms of leukemia, and ever since I found out about this it's changed my life for the better because every day I'm learning things and I think mortality has taught me and you don't have to be dying to learn some of the stuff I'm |
| 1:05.0 | learning part of my mission now because every day I'm just learning things about |
| 1:10.4 | life. |
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