What I find great about this exercise

[jrineakter]

When we die, ultimately, that's all that's left in this world, in the physical world anyway. We're no longer there physically, we're no longer there as human beings, as individuals, as physical bodies, and what will remain on earth is the tombstone.

There is a personal development exercise that I have read for a while and that I find super interesting, it is to try to summarize what you would like to see on your tombstone. So I have had fun doing it several times and I will tell you right after what I would like to see on my tombstone. In any case, it is an exercise that we can do, that I have done several times, to say to ourselves: "Let's imagine, I am dead. What is written on my tombstone?"

is that it forces you to define your priorities, to define your vision. It pushes you to reflect of course, to think, to sort through the different information, to sort through all the things that you would ultimately like to see and to synthesize them, because on a tombstone, we are not going to write a novel, we are not going to write a paragraph, we really just write a short sentence or two sentences, but it is very short. So, it gives you a kind of summary of what you would like to achieve for your life.

And I think it's ultimately great because it forces you, it really pushes you to think, it forces you to think and sort through all the things a little bit because we have a lot of things in our lives, a lot of goals, a lot of ambitions. But ultimately, being able to summarize that in one or two sentences, well it's not easy.

I don't see it as a sad or dark exercise. Often australia whatsapp number data when we talk about death, we tend to say to ourselves: "Oh that's sad, that's dark. Why think about that?" But I find that it gives perspective in fact. It's an exercise a little close to what I've talked to you about several times in this podcast, the memento mori. Memento mori, which is an exercise or which was an exercise practiced by the Romans, which ultimately meant: "Remember that you are mortal."

The idea was not to be sad, to panic, to be anxious about death. It was to have more perspective and to say to yourself: "Okay. The fact that I am mortal gives me responsibilities and it also gives me the motivation to do more while I am alive. Since my time is limited, let's try to do as much as possible and only apply or give resources to the things that are really important." I find that super useful. And at the end of the episode, I will tell you the current version of what I would like to see on my tombstone.