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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00:00 - Excerpt

01:46 - We all have a terminal illness, so what then is our call?

03:34 - Who is Paul Kalanithi and why he didn’t want to become a doctor

06:30 - Seeking to answer life’s greatest questions, and learning to understand the “physiological-spiritual” man

09:00 - Surrounded by death becoming a better doctor

12:26 - Neurosurgery must be a calling—it can’t be a job

15:30 - 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

25:16 - “…the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated” What are you going to do with your life?

33:40 - Live each day at a time

38:00 - When you see past the illusion, the most important things become clear

40:20 - Challenge