The Daily Stoic - Have A Near-Death Experience Every Morning

Episode Date: February 4, 2022

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Seneca nearly died in his early 20s. He had always struggled with a long condition, but moving from rural Spain to the congested polluted city of Rome caused some kind of flare-up. It was so painfully said he had the impulse to end his life. Seneca never fully recovered. The flare-up never unflayered, never died down or faded away. He said that he lived in a state of a sort of continued last gas. All the physician could do was tell him to get really good practicing how to die. Now, there's nothing that puts life in perspective like a near-death experience.

There's also nothing that could be argued that has produced better art. Montagne had a near-death experience. George Lucas had one. Stephen King had one. Robert Green had one. We recently talked to Jonathan Church on the Daily Stood podcast about his terminal cancer diagnosis. These experiences, as they did for Senuka, change a person.

Should we seek out near death experiences like this then? No. You can model one. And in his book, Show Your Work, Austin Cleon talks about how he reads the obituaries each morning. He says obituaries are like near death experiences for cowards. Reading them is a way for me to think about death while also keeping it at arm's length. Obituaries aren't really about death. They're about life. Reading about people who are dead now

and did things with their lives makes me want to get up and do something decent with mine. Thinking about death every morning makes me want to live. So try that. Read the obituaries this morning, not to be depressed, but to be inspired by the people who are not so different from you, who struggled like you struggled, who feared like you feared, but who did great things in the time while they were here, like you can, who died like you will. like you will, and then close the obits, go live, go do the things you hope one day will be written

in your obituary. There's one thing that I carry with me every day, and it's our Memento Mori coin, it goes in my left pocket of my jeans. And since we made the coin in 2016, we sold tens of thousands of them to people all over the world and we hear from them every day that it's part of their daily routine and their daily carry. I think the reason is that it helps you keep your priorities in check.

Somebody cuts you off in line. You don't get mad. You realize that we could leave life right now. We should let that determine what we do and say and think. Suddenly in the context of mortality, so much ceases to feel like a big deal. And the same goes with wasting time on social media or mindlessly watching TV. None of this is a good use of the very finite existence that we have. And this momentum-oriented exercise is not only one of the most important parts of stoicism, it's one of the most important personal changes I've made in my own life over the last few years. I think you'll get a lot out of it too.

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