How to make the most of a finite life (w/ Oliver Burkeman)

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  You're listening to how to Be a Better Human.

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  I am your host, Chris Duffy.

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  Today on the podcast,

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  we're going to be talking about one of the big existential questions that humans have faced for thousands of years.

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  What do you do with your time on this planet?

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  Now,

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  if you are expecting us to get to the bottom of that question to give you a complete

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  and definitive answer in the next 40ish minutes,

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  I have some terrible news for you.

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  You have lost your mind.

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  We are not going to be getting to the bottom of meaning of life on this one podcast episode.

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  If you thought we were, you are delusional.

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  But we will be talking with the journalist Oliver Berkman,

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  and we will be trying to figure out some ways that we can think about this and tackle

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  that question on our own for ourselves.

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  And Oliver has helped many, many people to think more deeply about their time on Earth.

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  And one of the ways that he has done that is to simply point out the undeniable fact about our existence,

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  which is that it is limited.

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  Here's a clip from Oliver's TEDx talk where he's talking about exactly this.

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  I think we need to think in a very different way about time.

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