The profound power of gratitude and "living eulogies" | Andrea Driessen

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Why do we often wait so long to recognize each other's gifts? Why are the truest compliments for the people we love often said only after they're no longer around to hear and savor them? Andrea Driessen makes the case for writing eulogies for the living, sharing the power of "Gracenotes" to offer connection on a deeper level and dispel any regrets of waiting until a loved one's death to appreciate their presence in your life.

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0:00.0	It's Ted Talk's Daily, I mean, Lee's You.
0:07.1	Even though we never want to lose the people we love, we do get to pay tribute to them
0:11.1	after they die.
0:12.2	We honor them with eulogies filled with warm and funny sentiments by loved ones.
0:17.0	In her 2021 talk at TEDx Seattle Women, hospice volunteer Andrea Dreson encourages us not
0:23.2	to look away from our mortality, but instead recognize that we have a short time on Earth,
0:29.1	we should appreciate the people we love while we're all still here.
0:59.1	I was a first knowledge worker who had his job threatened by a computer.
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