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What Are You Doing With Your Life? - Sam Harris
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What Are You Doing With Your Life? - Sam Harris

Sam Harris - What Are You Doing?

Neuroscientist and writer Sam Harris explains how people waste their lives doing non-essential things, rather than focus on accomplishing the most they can before they pass.

Transcript:


"Now, most of us do our best to not to think about death, but there's always part of our minds that knows this can't go on forever. Part of us always knows that we're just a doctor’s visit away, or a phone call away from being starkly reminded with the fact of our own mortality, or of those closest to us. Now, I’m sure many of you in this room have experienced this in some form. You must know how uncanny it is to suddenly be thrown out of the normal course of your life and just be given the full-time job of not dying or caring for someone who is. The one thing people tend to realize at moments like this is that they wasted a lot of time when life was normal.

It’s not just what they did with their time. It’s not just that they spent too much time working or compulsively checking email. It's that they cared about the wrong things. They regret what they cared about. Their attention was bound up in petty concerns a year after year when life was normal. This is a paradox of course, because we all know this epiphany is coming. Don’t you know this is coming? Don't you know that there's gonna come a day when you'll be sick, or someone close to you will die, and you'll look back on the kinds of things that captured your attention and you'll think, “What, what was I doing?” You know this, and yet if you’re like most people, you'll spend most of your time in life tacitly presuming you’ll live forever. I mean it’s like watching a bad movie for the fourth time, or bickering with your spouse. These things only make sense in light of eternity."

- Sam Harris

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