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Good evening, 66.1ers.
Thanksgiving tomorrow.
A co-worker sent me this article earlier today.
Been rereading Oliver Burkeman’s 4,000 Weeks recently.
Seems that most of the patients I’ve spoken with the past couple days at Mayo Clinic have cancer that’s progressing.
Counting their lives in the same units as Burkeman.
This screenshot is a snippet of something I sent to a mentor earlier today, in reference to these patients, wondering if we could maybe, just maybe, do better? (remember how 40% of cancers are related to preventable causes?)
You’re probably saying, “Jeez Marcus, why do you have to be such a rain cloud?”
All this stuff about cancer and limited time?
Sucks.
Isn’t fun.
But I think there’s a lesson in there?
I’ll try my best, anyway…
First, another story on our way to the lesson.
I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago.
Finance guy.
He’s in his 50s.
Told me too many people his age act like they’re going to live forever.
So they don’t build the money habits that matter.
Saving for retirement being the main one.
Eventually, they get old and tired and want to stop working, but they can’t afford it.
So they take a job as a checker at the grocery store, a job that’s typically reserved for high school and college kids.
Quick aside: if you had a bad break (medical bills, divorce, etc.) later in life, the kind of thing that forces you to un-retire, I’m not talking to you. Life happens. Respect to you for doing what it takes.
I’m talking about the folks who wound up in a tough spot because they spent the last 30 years ignoring reality.
Got me wondering if most of the world seems to be living this way, in one way or another?
If most people have forgotten that 4,000 weeks isn’t a lot, and even that isn’t guaranteed?
Consider the overweight 28-40 year old:
Do they think that gaining 5-10 pounds a year for the next 20 years isn’t going to have consequences?
Is modern medicine with its chemotherapy, cardiac stents, knee replacements, and GLP-1s an adequate substitute for fixing your habits, once and for all?
Isn’t relying on all the procedures and pills the health equivalent of having to work the non-optional retirement job because you didn’t get things straightened out 30 years ago?
So, yes.
Pause. Be thankful this Thanksgiving.
You might also want to run this mental experiment:
Zoom ahead.
A year from now.
Thanksgiving 2026.
What’s one thing you’d be thankful to yourself for changing if you acted on it today?
BTW–$0 Down closes Monday. I opened up a few more slots for next week.
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