026: How To Face Your Mortality - Paul Kalanithi from Becoming Antifragile

026: How To Face Your Mortality - Paul Kalanithi

41 minutes Posted Apr 28, 2024 at 10:45 am.

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We all have a terminal illness, so what then is our call?

Who is Paul Kalanithi and why he didn’t want to become a doctor

Seeking to answer life’s greatest questions, and learning to understand the “physiological-spiritual” man

Surrounded by death becoming a better doctor

Neurosurgery must be a calling—it can’t be a job

Life is ephemeral. Ask if yourself if you’re ready for death, and then if what you’re doing is something externally or internally motivated

“…the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated” What are you going to do with your life?

Live each day at a time

When you see past the illusion, the most important things become clear

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Lessons from 'When Breathe Becomes Air' by Paul Kalanithi

Paul Kalanithia was a neurosurgeon, writer, and a young father. He was completing his residency training in neurological surgery and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience when he was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. He died in March 2015, 22 months after.

'When Breathe Becomes Air' is a memoir and Paul's story of battling lung cancer. It was posthumously published on January 12, 2016

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