Thinking of your own death helps you stop making random choices and wasting time on trifles. You’re more aware of what you want to spend your time with. It focuses your mind on the truly important—on who you want to be in this world. It helps you live with areté, no matter what you’ve missed to this day. Life is now and you want to make the best of

On your deathbed, you have clarity. You’re unhooked from cultural fluency and conventional wisdom—whether because you possess your own wisdom or because, in your final moments, you no longer care about those things. Tim believes we should try to find that same level of deathbed clarity while there’s still plenty of time in our lives left to care.

Are we going to be the person not ready to die when it’s time? Thinking there are so many more things we wanted to do in our time alive? Full of regrets of what we’ve missed?