Endure Chapter 22: Forever
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 18 September 2022
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My new book, Endure, is now available! I’ll gift you the first three chapters of Endure as an instantly downloadable e-book and I'll also give you a sweet discount on the exact journal my family and I developed and use each day, The Spiritual Disciplines Journal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to chapter 22 of Endure. My name is Ben Greenfield and in each week here on this podcast, |
| 0:07.3 | I'll release you a little snippet from a chapter of my book at GetEndure.com. The title of the book is |
| 0:12.8 | Endure. It's a guide to spiritual stamina. And we're going to jump into chapter 22 today. |
| 0:19.4 | Chapter 22, forever. Heaven, hell, death. Well, it seems you and I have covered quite a few |
| 0:26.6 | after life-ish topics in the last several chapters. But in this chapter, I'd like to present you with |
| 0:32.4 | an important question and thought exercise. Similar to the exercise of writing your own obituary as |
| 0:37.8 | a potent practice to give you more insight into whether you are wasting your life or, instead, |
| 0:42.2 | making maximum impact or the exercise of essentially visualizing the experience of another to |
| 0:47.5 | truly live out the golden rule as I described to you in chapter 15. Or even more in Buffett's |
| 0:52.5 | well-known ovarian lottery exercise, which I'll link to on the resources webpage for this chapter at |
| 0:58.2 | GetEndure.com slash chapter 22. This next exercise, if your experience is anything like mine, |
| 1:03.8 | will give you valuable insight into what you should consider prioritizing during your relatively |
| 1:09.4 | short physical existence here on earth. So are you ready? Well, let's begin. What if you could live |
| 1:14.8 | forever? All right, so imagine you've suddenly discovered you're going to live forever. Yep, |
| 1:19.3 | forever. Now, forever is basically the equivalent of infinite and infinity is a pretty darn massive |
| 1:23.4 | idea. I mean, it's easy to understand the concept of infinity, but our frail human mind can't |
| 1:28.4 | truly comprehend how big or never ending infinity is simply because our perception of time from |
| 1:34.0 | our very birth has always had a beginning and an end measured in seconds, minutes, days, |
| 1:39.3 | years, and lifespans. But just humor me for a moment and try to imagine what would be like if you |
| 1:44.4 | could truly exist ad infinitum, if you could actually live forever. That's right, the concept of |
| 1:50.1 | limited time has suddenly vanished and even should you decide you still want to think about life |
| 1:55.1 | in respect to time, your affluence of time is a never ending bank account that will never diminish. |
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