Chris Guillebeau

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Good Life Project · Time Anxiety: Beating the Dread That You’ll Never Get Ahead | Chris Guillebeau · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think it's actually common among people of all ages.

You know, a few years ago, I wrote this other book called The Happiness of Pursuit, which was about like my quest to go to every country and then other people who had pursued all these different kinds of quests and such.

And I wanted to look at the commonalities, you know, between them, like all these different people.

What do they have in common besides the fact that they pursued this quest?

And one of those things was they tended to have what I called an emotional awareness of mortality, which is not just, oh, I understand that everyone dies.

Like that's an intellectual awareness.

But the emotional awareness is like someday I will die.

And that sense, you know, seem to kind of urge them along, right, and nudge them towards action and get them thinking about what is this thing I want to do.

And so I do think that there is a corollary to that in the sense of, okay, why do we ultimately feel anxious about anything?

Well, you know, the one sentence distillation of it is because we are going to die, right?

Do we ultimately feel like, you know, time is running out?

We worry that time is running out because time is running out.

Like, that's the bad news, right?

But the good news is I think it's actually very healthy to live with that emotional awareness of mortality and it can urge you towards action and urge you towards maybe a realignment and thinking like, okay, what does matter?

You know, if very few things matter, ultimately in the end,

What is on that short list and how can I spend more time doing those things and less time doing other things, but also just less time worrying about the other things because it's not always the doing of the things that causes the most anxiety.

It's the thinking about them.

I stress out a lot about my email and other communication, and I don't actually spend a lot of time on it.

I spend more time feeling regretful or feeling mad at myself for not responding to things than I actually do responding to things.

So I think learning to let go is helpful.

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