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Write your own obituary

Sep 20, 2023
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A 15-year-old recently asked a 93-year-old about how to live a good life.1

You should write your obituary and try to live up to it.
Take a pause and sit down.
Spend a full day writing down your own obituary.
Include everything you would wish it to say.
Reverse engineer it from there and try to live up to it.

It’s simple - in theory.

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This conversation was at the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting. You now know who the 93-year-old is, don't you?


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