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You Have 1,000 Words Left Before You Die. Now What?
He was a hard-charging salesman, who had a giant stick lodged up his a**.
The man only thought about himself. He only spoke about the things that mattered to him. He was only interested in work and landing the next big deal.
Work-life integration was non-existent; instead, it was work, work, work.
As he became successful, living in a beautiful home, having an incredible career, landing multimillion-dollar deals, he became distracted.
He focused on chasing the wrong things. He focused on pursuing things that can be taken away from him, including his life.
The gentlemen didn’t understand the importance of what the Stoics called, Premeditation Malorum, or the pre-meditations of evil.
Living life through this lens helps us prepare for the most nefarious situations. It helps us understand that life is far from perfect.
Instead, this man watched his wife sleep on the couch, with their young son. He witnessed his mother becoming sick and allowed her to wait for him to visit. He was rude and treated his employees like servants.
The man was a dick.
