How to rethink the way you spend your time — and life

Life Kit

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Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just 4,000 weeks to live. While that may come as a brutal dose of reality, it's also an opportunity to think about how you're spending that time.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's life kit.
0:03.8	I'm Mary El Segara.
0:05.3	Okay, I'm going to be a little bit of a downer here.
0:08.4	There's something about this time of year.
0:10.6	Maybe it's being plunged into darkness at 5pm or watching those beautiful bright red
0:16.2	and orange leaves shrivel up and fall off the trees.
0:21.0	We're constantly being reminded that everything in this life comes to an end, and one day
0:26.2	we too will die.
0:28.4	Yep, we're getting existential on you.
0:31.6	Today we've got a rerun about time hosted by LifeKit reporter Andy Tagle.
0:36.6	Here you go.
0:38.4	Okay, you ready?
0:41.3	Yeah.
0:42.3	Okay.
0:43.3	Hey, so I know you're just trying to mind your business and enjoy a quick podcast.
0:52.2	This is NPR's life kit, by the way.
0:54.6	We're about to throw you a bomb, a time bomb.
1:00.3	Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son, I thought that it
1:04.3	pulls me, but one that's hard to deny since I surely won't be doing it when he's 30.
1:09.3	There will be a last time that you visit your child at home or swim in the ocean or make
1:13.8	love or have a deep conversation with a certain close friend.
1:17.0	Yet, usually there'll be no way to know in the moment itself that you're doing it for
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