Life Is Short: How To Add A Sense of Urgency
Dan Lok Show
Dan Lok
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Right now you might feel like you’ll live forever. But this episode will remind you that life is short and your time on earth is finite. Discover how to add a sense of urgency to your life as Dan demonstrates the shocking number of years you really have to live. What is one thing you’ll stop doing and what will you do instead? Comment below.
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| 0:00.0 | Question for you. |
| 0:02.0 | Do you sometimes procrastinate that you know what you're supposed to do, but you just can't get yourself to do what is necessary. |
| 0:23.6 | Or sometimes you don't feel that motivated, |
| 0:25.7 | you don't feel that driven. |
| 0:27.6 | How do you cultivate, how do you add a sense of urgency |
| 0:31.3 | to your life? |
| 0:33.6 | I know that when we are young, we feel like we've got |
| 0:36.0 | all the time in the world, we feel like we are going to live forever. |
| 0:40.8 | But when we get a little bit older, we realize there's a finite amount of time that we have on this planet Earth. |
| 0:48.5 | Let's say this represents a year of your life. And let's say our average lifespan is 80 years. |
| 0:56.6 | Well, then this represents your entire life. |
| 1:01.0 | Do you know as a human being on average, |
| 1:03.3 | we spent 26 years of our life just sleeping? |
| 1:07.9 | That's correct, 26 years of our life gone, just resting and sleeping in bed. |
| 1:16.2 | But you know what? It's even more shocking. We spent another seven years just trying to sleep. |
| 1:24.0 | Trying to fall asleep. School, work, anxiety, stress. |
| 1:28.3 | Sleep is a big issue in a society. |
| 1:30.3 | Then we spent another 11 years |
| 1:33.3 | just watching TV and browsing on the internet. |
| 1:37.3 | That's also gone. |
| 1:39.3 | Then we spend another five years eating |
| 1:41.3 | because we need food and we need energy. Now you might think that we |
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