Life is short, and for good reason – here's how to make it more meaningful

  • Written by: Dean Rickles, Professor, University of Sydney
Life is short, and for good reason – here's how to make it more meaningfulEyasu Utsub/Unsplash

In 1605 the great Spanish novelist, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, wrote, through the mouthpiece of Don Quixote of La Mancha, that it is

the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

But just how wise is this? I argue not at all.

It is the height of folly “to keep...

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