Jodi Wellman

So we just need to define for ourselves what would make you feel alive?

What would make you feel if you got to the end, like you wouldn't regret things you didn't do?

Because I agree, it's not 100 miles an hour every day, but it's about saying, wait, maybe I do need to just snap out of this routine and start living with a little more intention.

So I think it's all in the right dosing.

Well, I'm going to back it up a sec because I do think that even understanding this notion of living with intention, because it does seem obscure, like, wait, what do I do?

I think the starting point is to do the good old fashioned, count how many Mondays you have left.

Like this is a language I speak and I do it intentionally to rankle a little bit.

Like for example, I have 1,814 Mondays left on average.

I want people to do that mortality math because that's the thing that helps us to come to terms with our unfortunate, you know, temporary nature.

And when we do that, for many of us, it does that thing, which is like that little eye opening of,

oh, right, like my countdown timer is on.

And what that tends to do, just like people who've had near-death experiences or brushes with death where they've emerged, phew, like they made it, they're living with more of a sense of appreciation for life and like on purpose than the rest of us.

So that's the starting point, Mike, is that awareness.

Like, right, I am a ticking time bomb of a life over here.

And so in light of that,

How do I want to be just a little more mindful about how I spend my time?

And that tends to crystallize a little bit about what our priorities are, what our interests are, and helps us to just get out of that kind of highly functioning zombie zone.

So I just wanted to go back to that starting point philosophically, you know?

I love this question so much.

This is the exact area I study is around the notion, not just of temporal scarcity, which is recognizing because we're temporary, life's more rare, but the science of regrets.