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A Thirty Thousand Day Life With Carly Taylor · Hardiness with Dr Paul Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, and welcome to you this week's Mojo Monday.
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  Speaker 1: So I had a birthday recently. I have been on
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  Speaker 1: this earth for fifty seven years and one week at
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  Speaker 1: the time of this recording. And there's a calculation I
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  Speaker 1: was introduced to about ten years ago when I was
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  Speaker 1: studying in the US. I was studying Japanese psychology. And
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  Speaker 1: what it is is an estimate of how many days
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  Speaker 1: you've got left to live. So you take roughly a
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  Speaker 1: life of thirty thousand days, and you subtract the number
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  Speaker 1: of days that you've already lived and what's left, basically
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  Speaker 1: the days that you have left. It's a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a reality check. Greg Creech, who I studied Japanese psychology under,
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  Speaker 1: he shares a birthday week with me, and he does
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  Speaker 1: this same calculation on his birthday and he writes about
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  Speaker 1: it to use in the thirty Thousand Days newsletter that
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  Speaker 1: the Toto Institute put out, and that's what's reminded me
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  Speaker 1: of this time. So, first of all, you work out
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  Speaker 1: how many days you've lived, and there are few ways
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  Speaker 1: to do this. The easiest and fastest is to actually
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  Speaker 1: ask chat GPT because it'll work it out for you.
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  Speaker 1: Almost instantaneously. You can also go to a website called
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  Speaker 1: timeandate dot com, which is free, and you plug in
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  Speaker 1: your birthday and then today's date, and it'll tell me
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  Speaker 1: tell you how many days it's been that you've been living,
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  Speaker 1: and then you just subtract that number from thirty thousand,
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  Speaker 1: and what's left is roughly how many days you have
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  Speaker 1: left to live. So for me, that is around nine
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy four days, give or take. So
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  Speaker 1: obviously that numbers gone down since I first worked it
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  Speaker 1: out ten years ago, and of course none of us
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  Speaker 1: know when our time is up. The calculation is definitely
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  Speaker 1: not a prediction. It's a easy reminder that there is
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  Speaker 1: a number, even if we don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what this exercise is really what makes it
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  Speaker 1: really useful. It's a lot harder to waste a day
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  Speaker 1: when you can put a rough figure on how many
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  Speaker 1: you've got left. Having this knowledge can help shape the
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  Speaker 1: choices that we make each day, so that might look
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  Speaker 1: like spending time with the people that we love instead
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  Speaker 1: of scrolling on our phones or answering the call even
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  Speaker 1: when we're too tired to talk, or ringing somebody out
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  Speaker 1: of the blue, just to hear their voice. You might
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  Speaker 1: mean choosing food that nourishes us, even when junk food
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  Speaker 1: would be a lot easier, or taking risks without any
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  Speaker 1: certainty that it's going to work out. Or today the
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  Speaker 1: sun is shining and the warmth of it is there
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  Speaker 1: when you pause for a moment and really feel that
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  Speaker 1: warmth on your skins are starting to appear. And most
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  Speaker 1: days I see ducks hanging out on the grass, which
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  Speaker 1: I know will soon have little ducklings following them everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And this morning my barista made the best coffee which
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  Speaker 1: I fully enjoyed before starting work, and I had a
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  Speaker 1: meaningful chat with a gym friend who's going through really
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  Speaker 1: stressful medical condition. Right now, you know, all these things,
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  Speaker 1: they're not big things in the life. They're small, daily
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  Speaker 1: things that are there in front of us, and we
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  Speaker 1: can easily miss them if we don't turn our attention
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  Speaker 1: to them. Living fully isn't one huge decision, It's a
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  Speaker 1: small It's hundreds of small choices that we make every day.
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  Speaker 1: So we have finite days on this planet, and some
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  Speaker 1: of us are faced with massive challenges and others with
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  Speaker 1: smaller ones. But whatever the intensity, there are still moments
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  Speaker 1: to really enjoy if you allow yourself to so. I
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  Speaker 1: have a great week everyone. I'll catch you next week.
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  Speaker 1: See you m hm.