Lex Fridman: recommendation

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…One thing that I try to live by, especially nowadays and since I wrote the book, I’ve been thinking more and more about this is, how do I want to live a memorable life? I think if we go back to the pandemic, how many people have memories from that period, aside from the trauma of being locked up and seeing people die and all this stuff. I think it’s one of these things where we were stuck inside looking at screens all day, doing the same thing with the same people. And so I don’t remember much from that in terms of those good memories that you’re talking about. When I was growing up, my parents worked really hard for us and we went on some vacations, but not very often. And I really try to do now vacations to interesting places as much as possible with my family because those are the things that you remember. So I really do think about what’s going to be something that’s memorable and then just do it even if it’s a pain in the ass because the experiencing self will suffer for that but the remembering self will be like, “Yes, I’m so glad I did that.” Do things that are very unpleasant in the moment because those can be reframed and enjoyed for many years to come. That’s probably good advice. Or at least when you’re going through, it’s a good way to see the silver lining of it. Yeah, I mean I think it’s one of these things where if you have people who you’ve gone through since you said it, I’ll just, since you’ve gone through shit with someone-…

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