April 24

Day 114/365: Seneca on the length of life

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Logan
April 24, 2025

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114/365: Seneca on the length of life

“Show me that the good life doesn’t consist in its length, but in its use, and that it is possible—no, entirely too common—for a person who has had a long life to have lived too little.” – Seneca

Shape your days to use your life. Not so your final age is stretched to a long number, but that your time was used well.

What does concept of using life well mean to you?

  • Is it deploying resources instead of hoarding them?

  • Is it gifting during life instead of after?

  • Is it the more enjoyable job with less economics?

  • Is it the house in the nice neighborhood, or the house that’s in the most useful location?

The achievement rest not in a number of years lived, but what was held inside of each year, how well they were used.

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