Ever wonder why it's so hard for people not to take life for granted? When life turns a certain direction or some unexpected thing happens, people always say the same thing. "Life's too short! You have to appreciate every second." We all commit to stopping and smelling the roses more, but that never seems to last. This episode examines the patterns and user experience around the effort to not take life for granted. It provides an explanation for why all this is and suggests that the very message not to take life for granted, counterintuitively, leads people to take life more for granted. This episode introduces you to the powerful technique of inversion and ultimately helps you see that when you experiment with inversion and with trying to take life fully for granted, you end up where you wanted to get to all along.