Clegg argues that thinking about your mortality isn't depressing, it's clarifying. Facing that any day could be your last makes you listen to your own voice, act braver, love harder, and stop wasting time on things that don't matter.
No one knows when we check out. No one knows when our last date will be. And it is a false assumption that we will all get to live into our 90s. And once you really build intimacy, like emotional intimacy, not only intellectual emotional intimacy, with the fact that this could be one of your final days, then it's not a depressing thing. It becomes an inspirational thing. You start to live by your own drumbeat. You start to listen to your own authentic voice. You start to do be braver. You start to be more loving. You start to be more kinder. You start to do bolder things. You start to seize opportunities because you're not in limbic hijack over.
Failing, which is one of the big reasons why we don't take great steps.
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