Peter Attia's Powerful Final Chapter | #283
We saw every type of doctor you could imagine, lost count of how many treatments and therapies we tried, spent thousands of dollars, gave up all hope of her getting better, and started making plans for an early death. I was in my mid-thirties making plans to be a single father.
John Mark Comer • Deliverance: A Journey Toward the Unexpected
be restored to full human flourishing.
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
(1) an ending, followed by (2) a period of confusion and distress, leading to (3) a new beginning, for those who had come that far.
William Bridges • Transitions (40th Anniversary Edition): Making Sense of Life's Changes
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
... See moreI had to remind myself of what Steve Rosenberg used to say when a patient’s cancer progressed despite treatment: The patient has not failed the treatment; the treatment has failed the patient.