Chris Guillebeau

where I looked at people who pursued big quests, did all kinds of stuff like I did about going to every country in the world and so on. And one commonality was they had this emotional awareness of mortality. And everybody has an intellectual awareness, like, yeah, everybody dies. But an emotional awareness is more personal. It's more like, yes, someday I'm going to die.

And the interesting thing is when you have this mentality, I mean, it can sound kind of like overbearing or scary, but it actually can feel very purposeful because you're like, OK, someday I'm going to die. Time is running out. Therefore, that might actually that knowledge might actually help me let go of some of those things, maybe not all those things that you mentioned.

And the interesting thing is when you have this mentality, I mean, it can sound kind of like overbearing or scary, but it actually can feel very purposeful because you're like, OK, someday I'm going to die. Time is running out. Therefore, that might actually that knowledge might actually help me let go of some of those things, maybe not all those things that you mentioned.

And the interesting thing is when you have this mentality, I mean, it can sound kind of like overbearing or scary, but it actually can feel very purposeful because you're like, OK, someday I'm going to die. Time is running out. Therefore, that might actually that knowledge might actually help me let go of some of those things, maybe not all those things that you mentioned.

But when I once I understand, you know, it kind of gives you this like built in excuse for anything you don't want to do. You know, if somebody asks you to do something and you don't want to do it, you're effectively like, No, thank you. I'm going to die one day, you know, like hopefully not tomorrow, but I don't know, right?

But when I once I understand, you know, it kind of gives you this like built in excuse for anything you don't want to do. You know, if somebody asks you to do something and you don't want to do it, you're effectively like, No, thank you. I'm going to die one day, you know, like hopefully not tomorrow, but I don't know, right?

But when I once I understand, you know, it kind of gives you this like built in excuse for anything you don't want to do. You know, if somebody asks you to do something and you don't want to do it, you're effectively like, No, thank you. I'm going to die one day, you know, like hopefully not tomorrow, but I don't know, right?

And we might not use that exact language, but my point is the framing of understanding your mortality can be very helpful in making decisions.

And we might not use that exact language, but my point is the framing of understanding your mortality can be very helpful in making decisions.

And we might not use that exact language, but my point is the framing of understanding your mortality can be very helpful in making decisions.

Well, I think avoidance is a huge strategy and practice and I come by it honest. I can avoid with the best of them. I have some stories in one of the chapters about there's this guy in the UK who was going to prison for fraud. I think he had like a two-year sentence and he

Well, I think avoidance is a huge strategy and practice and I come by it honest. I can avoid with the best of them. I have some stories in one of the chapters about there's this guy in the UK who was going to prison for fraud. I think he had like a two-year sentence and he

Well, I think avoidance is a huge strategy and practice and I come by it honest. I can avoid with the best of them. I have some stories in one of the chapters about there's this guy in the UK who was going to prison for fraud. I think he had like a two-year sentence and he

avoided his sentence at least for a while by pretending to be in a coma and it's very difficult to pretend to be in a coma you know for a long period of time he was even hospitalized so how do you do that for like yeah how do you do that right um and obviously he eventually gets found out when cctv finds him you know doing some grocery shopping and such but

avoided his sentence at least for a while by pretending to be in a coma and it's very difficult to pretend to be in a coma you know for a long period of time he was even hospitalized so how do you do that for like yeah how do you do that right um and obviously he eventually gets found out when cctv finds him you know doing some grocery shopping and such but

avoided his sentence at least for a while by pretending to be in a coma and it's very difficult to pretend to be in a coma you know for a long period of time he was even hospitalized so how do you do that for like yeah how do you do that right um and obviously he eventually gets found out when cctv finds him you know doing some grocery shopping and such but

And there's stories of like the runaway bride, you know, didn't want to face, you know, the wedding. And so it got cold, but cold feet. But instead of having a conversation, you know, actually like disappeared and then it becomes this nationwide thing. So avoidant people will do a lot of things right to to avoid and simply facing some of those things.

And there's stories of like the runaway bride, you know, didn't want to face, you know, the wedding. And so it got cold, but cold feet. But instead of having a conversation, you know, actually like disappeared and then it becomes this nationwide thing. So avoidant people will do a lot of things right to to avoid and simply facing some of those things.

And there's stories of like the runaway bride, you know, didn't want to face, you know, the wedding. And so it got cold, but cold feet. But instead of having a conversation, you know, actually like disappeared and then it becomes this nationwide thing. So avoidant people will do a lot of things right to to avoid and simply facing some of those things.

I know that's not easy, but simply facing some of those things can be so helpful and provide so much relief. One thing I do is I have a to dread list. Right. Which is like just like it sounds, you've got your to do list, your to dread list is like these are the things I am putting off. And I'm just thinking about it here in real time as we're having this conversation.