Life in Half a Second: How to Achieve Success Before it's Too Late

I want to live full and die empty.

winning the sperm race to be born, to be you.

My impression of the world is that we spend life doing what we “have to” rather than what we “want to”.

We don’t appreciate this as kids. Time seems unlimited and goes by ever so slowly. We’re impatient to grow up, become adults, and enter the real world. We imagine all the freedom we’ll have, all the things we’ll get to do. But when adulthood finally arrives, we discover that we’ll be spending the vast majority of our “freedom” at work, paying bills, surviving, often in jobs we don’t like or don’t care about. Life is not how we imagined it and disillusionment sets in

“Life is short and death is long.”