Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: Live Like You’re Dying
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/live-like-youre-dying
- Read date:: 2025-03-29
Highlights
“It’ll get better in two weeks.” This week? A lost cause, bulldozed by the current thing—an important deal going sideways; a festering beef between coworkers; a board presentation; a pileup of calls and Slack messages; whatever. Next week? A traffic jam from this week, of rescheduled meetings and punted follow-ups. But the next week? Then, we joked, things would calm down. Then, we will catch up on emails, and errands, and sleep. We will go home, log off, touch grass. In two weeks, the gridlock will clear up, and there will be nothing left but an open road, and a whole lot of speed. (View Highlight)
But you need the delusion, because you can’t run a marathon of sprints without convincing yourself that a finish line might be around the next corner. (View Highlight)
Uncertainty, it turns out, wears you down much faster than effort. (View Highlight)