Confronting mortality, with Robert Greene

I'd love to hear your thoughts on confronting mortality as a subject. I've heard you talk a lot about it and it's a very popular subject, I think, within my sphere of influence right now. Also, I'd love to have you expand on that a little bit.

Well, it's the last chapter in The Laws of Human Nature, Confront Your Mortality. And I go very deeply into the subject, sort of touching upon some of your own ideas. Basically, the idea that it's your greatest fear in life, obviously. And we live in a world that very much represses the thought of death. So if you go back, once again, to do this thought experiment a couple hundred years ago, you would— you could not fail to see people die in front of you, literally, physically, several times during your life. You might see it on the streets in a town or a city. You'll see it— people died in their houses, right? If you lived, you know, if you— most people had to kill their own food, had to kill a chicken. You saw animals being slaughtered in front of your eyes. Death had a presence. It was constantly there. And so it was— people were thinking about it all the time, and they had religion to kind of help them soothe the idea