Video transcript
Summary
This video discusses the importance of self-awareness and having a clear direction in life. It suggests that by contemplating our mortality and present circumstances, we can live more fully and intentionally today.
Key points- Knowing who you are prevents you from becoming anyone, and knowing where you are going prevents you from going anywhere.
- The suggested process is to follow your bliss.
- Contemplating limited time, like having only today or six months to live, can reveal how you should be living now.
- Embracing the idea of dying can lead to living more.
- Busyness can prevent us from stopping to consider our direction in life.
Chapters
Notable quotes (3)
“do I ask you that because if you don't know who you are you can end up being anybody”
“the process I suggest is follow your bless”
“when you embrace the idea of dying you live more”
0:00who are you and where you going so why do I ask you that because if you don't know who you are you can end up being anybody and if you don't know where you're going you can end up going anywhere and it doesn't mean you need to know but what's your process so the process I suggest is follow your bless if I only have today to live if I only have six months to live how would I be living if I had all the resources I need then why not be that now or develop that way of being now because I'm not guaranteed tomorrow or you're like the
0:37coach you know you're a coaching but you won't be a tomorrow so you have to understand you only got today and so that death awareness or the impermanence is a way as Joseph Campbell said when you embrace the idea of dying you live more so when I ask that question is not to unsettle you or anything it's to kind of wake you up to and you might say well I'm doing what I want to do I'm being who I want to be and part of it could be because we're so busy we don't have a chance to stop and think about well where am I going and where am I
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