It’s also about trying to find concrete ways to explain very abstract concepts…
Which comes in handy when you’re trying to make mitochondria or autophagy sound interesting to people.
More importantly than that though…
Because I chose to study philosophy…
I basically got to spend two years examining myself, who I really was, and why I did the things I did…
And I spent dozens of hours each week…
Meditating and writing about “big” topics like love, eternity, God, morality, and death.
I think that really helped me in 2011…
When my dad was diagnosed with cancer…
And died five months after.
It was an awful experience…
But because I had spent so much time thinking about the inevitability of death…
And how we only have a finite amount of time on this earth…
It made the diagnosis and death of my father less shocking.
Not easier…
But I wasn’t blindsided.
And, I think if you can get to a place where you're comfortable with the idea of death…
It can make a big impact in your life too.