On Time: Making the most of the time we have with Sebene Selassie

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How do we make the most of our time here on this earth? This month we’ve discussed the minutes in our days with Laura Vanderkam, the productivity of our weeks and months with Cal Newport, and the cadence of our years with Natalie Nixon. Today, Sebene Selassie is here to talk with us about time over the course of a full life. Sebene is a writer, teacher, and lifetime student of Buddhism. She’s also a woman living with metastatic breast cancer. She sits down with Jessi to share some of what she has learned in the 20 years since her diagnosis, about control, surrender, and connection. Subscribe to Sebene Selassie’s newsletter here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community and continue the conversation with us: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter Join us this week and every week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page Join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:02.0	From the news
0:05.0	from the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday. We all live our lives with some sense of a deadline.
0:25.0	A lot of us are fortunate enough to feel confident in the promise of what we call a long life,
0:31.0	maybe 80 or 90 great years. But of course, life isn't that
0:36.6	predictable. Everything can change in an instant. We can't really think
0:42.2	about using our time well unless we factor in this idea that we can't
0:46.4	be sure of exactly how much of it we even have.
0:50.2	How would you live your life if you knew the extent of its limit?
0:56.3	Today's guest, Sabinet Salasi, is a lifetime student of Buddhism
1:00.9	and a gifted teacher.
1:03.0	Sabinet was pretty young when her own life took on an urgent question.
1:08.0	I was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 34 and there's nothing that'll put a fire under your butt to practice more than
1:16.0	a cancer diagnosis.
1:19.2	One's early 30s can be a time of great pressure, even in the best of circumstances.
1:25.0	People around us often begin to pair off or to have kids.
1:29.0	Careers take off, and we can be left feeling the pressure that comes with having lots of choices and being told that we need to decide.
1:37.0	Time is ticking.
1:39.0	Now, add a cancer diagnosis into this mix.
1:44.0	Cebade's diagnosis inspired her to dive deeper into her meditation practice,
1:49.0	and to embrace teaching.
1:51.0	It's been nearly two decades and she is still living with her cancer and
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