Lessons from the Journey: Being Aware of Our Mortality Can Help Us Focus

From my own 193-country journey to the stories of many other people who were kindly willing to share, The Happiness of Pursuit attempts to extract and convey the lessons of modern-day quests. This series explores some of these lessons.

Lesson: Every day matters. The awareness of our mortality can help us focus.

We all have a limited amount of time on earth. Those who live in active awareness of this reality are more likely to identify goals and make progress toward them. Or to put it another wa...