Is cultivating an active awareness of death the only surefire way to make the most of our lives?

Poonam sits down with Jodi Wellman, a TED speaker, coach, and thought leader on well-being and living lives worth living. A former corporate executive who executed a midlife shift, Jodi earned her Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now an instructor in the Master’s program and a trainer in the world-renowned Penn Resilience Program. Jodi’s latest book, YOU ONLY DIE ONCE, is a battle call, to wake us up to the concept of 'memento mori' (the beautiful awareness of the fact that we will die) which should help us feel more alive. After her own mother’s early death, she awoke to that reality herself, finally changing her own trajectory from passive to astonishingly alive in things big and small, going from corporate life to the one she leads now. In this episode, we talk about Terror Management Theory, the science of death anxiety, how we're tranquilizing ourselves out of actually feeling alive, the Gross National Happiness Levels in Bhutan, and the power of counting how many Mondays we each have left on the planet. It's fewer than you think. And even those are not guaranteed.

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