How To Deal With The Shortness Of Life - Dean Rickles - #568
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dean Rickles. He's professor |
| 0:06.0 | of history and philosophy of modern physics at the University of Sydney and a director |
| 0:10.5 | of the Sydney Center for Time. Life doesn't last that long. The ever-present specter of |
| 0:16.1 | death looms large, even if you live to be 100. This can feel like a tragedy in many ways. |
| 0:22.7 | What use are our efforts if they'll all be turned to dust, eventually? The philosopher's |
| 0:27.1 | insight is needed here to give us a fresh perspective. Expect to learn why keeping your |
| 0:32.6 | options open is a path to an early grave, how you can remind yourself of the miracle that |
| 0:37.6 | you're alive at all, the solution to living a listless, unintentional life, whether |
| 0:42.4 | death is actually the only thing that gives life any meaning, the danger of being a sailor |
| 0:47.5 | without a journey or a route, and much more. I didn't plan it to be this way, but this |
| 0:53.7 | feels like quite an appropriate episode, I think, to go into the Christmas period with. |
| 0:58.8 | I do sometimes feel a bit melancholy when it's Christmas time. I think it's because I'm |
| 1:03.2 | back home and I'm reminiscing about what's happened throughout the year and everything |
| 1:06.3 | slows down a little bit. I do think that considering the shortness of life and where it is |
| 1:11.9 | that we're going with our days is probably a pretty nice reflection and it is, despite |
| 1:16.7 | the morbid sounding description, it is actually quite uplifting. So this will be the last |
| 1:22.0 | episode I get to speak to you about before Christmas happens. There is no episode this |
| 1:26.7 | Saturday. I figured that I would give everyone that ears arrest on Christmas Eve. But |
| 1:32.4 | yeah, thank you very much. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Love you all. I can't |
| 1:38.5 | wait to see what the New Year's got to install. Tons and tons of exciting things. But for |
| 1:42.3 | now, enjoy the food, enjoy the family, be present. Remember that life is incredibly short |
| 1:47.7 | and that this could be one of the last Christmas that you get to spend with even the annoying |
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