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At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? And how can
knowing this help you live better lives now? BJ Miller, MD
(@zenhospice) knows. BJ is a palliative care physician at Zen
Hospice Project in San Francisco, where he thinks deeply about
how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients.
He is an expert in death, but he’s also learned how we can
dramatically improve our own lives, often with very small
changes. When you consider that he has guided or been involved
with ~1,000 deaths, it’s not surprising that he’s spotted
patterns we can all learn from. BJ is also a triple amputee, and
his 2015 TED Talk, "Not Whether But How," is a moving
reflection on his vision to make empathic end-of-life care
available to all, ranked among the top-15 most viewed TED talks
of the year. If you want to know what being around death can
teach you about living, you'll want to listen to this. I LOVED
this conversation, and I hope you do as well. Enjoy. Show
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Past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include
Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James,
Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew
McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia,
Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl
Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris,
Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil
Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly
Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené
Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan,
Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi,
Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio,
Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer,
Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna
Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick
Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, and many more.


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