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An 80-Year-Old’s Advice: Stay Open-Hearted

5 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment of the YouTube video, Utkarsh Narang asks speaker B (Josh) to imagine what his 80‑year‑old future self would advise him today. Josh reflects that he hopes his older self would encourage him to remain open‑hearted, optimistic, and compassionate despite global challenges. He cites Mingyur Rinpoche’s book about being "in love with life" as an inspiration, emphasizing that love for life, appreciation, and compassion are central to his long‑term personal goal of inspiring wisdom and compassion in the world.

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If we go into the future, Josh, and from that 8-year-old to now, that 80-year-old, the one from the future, if that 80-year-old were to come to you right now, what would that 80-year-old say?
Well, I wish I knew. I think that one of the things that I have grappled with in the last few years is keeping open-hearted, maintaining optimism, maintaining compassion. My noble goal is to inspire compassion and wisdom. And when I look at the messes that we have around the world, I sometimes get real impatient. And Mingyur Rinpoche wrote a book about being in love with life. The title is something like that. And I was thinking, I want to stay in love with life. And to me, that open-heartedness, appreciation, compassion are really at the center of that. And so I hope that my 80-year-old self is still committed to that.