Name: This Simple Trick Will Motivate You For Life
Uploaded: 2020-07-30T19:40:16.000Z
Duration: 10 min 36 s
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last week was pretty rough, a lot of things went wrong and I kinda felt extremely unmotivated.

To-infinitive

I even struggled to get up in the morning.

however, I wasn't worried because one week in comparison to 4679 weeks is nothing.

that's how many weeks I will live if I am going to witness my 90th birthday.

But let's be honest, most of us won't make it to 90. because life expectancy in the US,

for example, is just below 80 years (78.6 Years).

But for some weird reason when you are in your 20s,30s or even 40s, you assume like

but the truth is you would lucky even if you make it to your 80s. because if you would

live in Greenland, you most likely won't even celebrate your 70th birthday (69.9) just

because you live in the United States, you have an extra 450 weeks.

but that's not the worst place to live in because in Senegal man on average don't make

it past the 60, they live 19 years shorter than an average person in the United States.

and in Chad man hardly celebrate their 50th birthday.

But even 80 years isn't really as long as you might imagine.

If all of your life would be summarised in little cubics then this is your entire life,

but that's assuming that you are going to be one of the few individuals who are going

to hit 100, but in reality, we will have to take out 2 cubics,

how about we try to be a little bit more precise.

How about we take a look at your life in months, if each circle is a full month, then this

This is when you are born, this is when you hit your 20, then 30, then finally 60. and

the last 20 years of your life most probably aren't going to be as exciting as your 20s.

1-month might seems like a long time, but take a moment and think about how fast the

How would your life look if we measure it in weeks?

When you think about it that way, it seems like you have an infinite amount of weeks.

That's how many weeks it takes to turn a newborn into an 80-year-old.

In the first 234 weeks, you are going to make your first steps and start walking.

Your mom will be showing you different pictures to help you to speak and when you accidentally

at a week 235th, you are going to go to school for the first time and will spend there over

In your 445th week, you will be allowed to drive if you are in South Dakota, otherwise,

Somewhere around there, you are going to meet your best friends and will fall in love for

Falling in love when you are a naive little kid is way more romantic than when you grow

up and realize that the world is a harsh place to be in.

So if you are still there, enjoy that love because love isn't gonna be the same later

Here you can vote, you are finally treated like an adult, by the way, you can start smoking

Dozens of weeks later you enroll in college and that's only when you are allowed to

78 weeks later, you will be at your graduating ceremony.

Your dad most probably got married here, 15 weeks after his graduation.

but you won't because times have changed and most people aren't in a rush to get

married, at least in most of the developed world.

However, even today, That's when on average most women have their first child.

by 28, you will fall in love again but this time you will decide to marry her.

if you find out this was a mistake, here is where you will get a divorce.

Of course, you aren't going to stick to a single job your entire life, you will be changing

But you can't be working your entire life.

at 63 you will retire and if you are lucky you will see your grandchildren somewhere

around there because as a man, you probably won't make it past the 76 and as a woman,

you will live few more hundred weeks till you make it to this dot (81 years).

Since you are watching this video, you don't simply want to live your life but at least

Maybe you want to start your own company, become a singer, a writer or the head of a

You might be in your 20s maybe 30s and you believe that you still have time.

But how do you think you are doing compared to other great people like Isaac Newton or

Here Einstein published his theory of special relativity.

Here again, Einstein releases his famous formula and Here Newton develops his law of gravitation.

The question is, where are you in this graph and what have you accomplished.

Do not think for a moment that you still have the time, some of the most famous people you

know didn't even make it to their 40s or 50s.

Jim Morrison, the famous singer, and songwriter passed away here.

Marilyn Monroe didn't even witness her 37th birthday, Martin Luther King passed away at

Michael Jackson didn't even complete his 52nd year.

Lincoln was assassinated here and steve jobs died out of cancer right there.

In all honesty, you don't have as much time as you think you have.

And even if you make it to your 100th birthday, the entire world will be talking about you.

Currently, the eldest person in the world is Kane Tanaka.

This means her birthday is closer to the death of Napoleon Bonaparte than to the 21st century.

When she was a baby, there was still Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and the Russian empire

and the world was a completely different place from what we know it today.

She witnessed world war 1, the sinking of titanic, the Russian revolution, the great

Sputnik, the moon landing and how the world though that the world will end in the year

But what about you, what are you going to witness in your life, what are major events

that are going to take place in your lifetime?

You probably won't witness any world wars, hopefully! because of mutually assured distraction.

but our generation will witness the first person to ever step on Martian soil and space

travel will be something common among the rich.

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