Name: I'm 73... It Took Me 52 Years To Learn This (Don't Waste Yours)
Uploaded: 2025-12-21T02:06:24.000Z
Duration: 12 min 21 s
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I'm 73 years old, and I'm about to tell you something that might upset you.

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Everything you think you know about getting older is completely wrong.

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The people who should be telling you this.

Your parents, your teachers, society, they're either lying to you or they don't know themselves.

You see, I spent the first 50 years of my life believing the same lies you probably believe right now.

I had the career, the house, the respect of my peers.

But at 52, something happened that shattered everything I thought I knew.

And what I discovered in the 21 years since then has completely changed how I see life, death, and

But before I tell you what happened, I need you to understand something.

The reason I'm making this video isn't to impress you or to make myself feel wise.

I'm making this because I'm running out of time.

And there are things you need to hear before it's too late.

At 52, I had what doctors call a cardiac event.

That's a fancy way of saying my heart tried to kill me.

I was in a meeting discussing quarterly projections when suddenly the room started spinning.

The next thing I remember is waking up in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of my arms and my wife crying in the corner.

I had just come face to face with my own mortality, and they called it luck.

Because lying in that hospital bed with nothing to do but think, I realized something terrifying.

I had been living my entire life on autopilot.

I was just going through the motions, checking boxes, trying to meet everyone else's expectations.

And here's the part that haunts me to this day.

If I had died that day, if my heart had stopped permanently, what would I have left behind?

A collection of achievements that nobody would remember in five years?

Let me tell you the biggest lie you're probably telling yourself right now.

I'll do that later, when I'm older, I'll finally live the life I want.

I see young people in their 20s, 30s, even 40s, and they're all saying the same thing.

When I make more money, then I'll be happy.

When I get that promotion, then I'll relax when the kids are grown, then I'll travel.

When I retire, then I'll finally do what I love.

Let me save you 50 years of regret with one simple truth.

You get the promotion and suddenly you need the next one.

You make more money, and suddenly you need more money.

You're always chasing something just out of reach.

And before you know it, you're 70 years old, wondering where your life went.

I spent 30 years climbing a ladder, only to realize when I got to the top that it was leaning against the wrong wall.

And you can't climb back down and start over.

Here's something nobody tells you when you're young.

And I say this as someone who achieved everything I set out to achieve.

I made partner at my firm, I bought the house.

You achieve your goal and for about 48 hours, you feel amazing.

Now you need a new goal, a bigger achievement, More validation.

I had a friend who died three years ago at 68.

At his funeral, his son said, my father was a successful man, but I barely knew him.

Your regrets won't be about the things you did wrong.

They'll be about the things you didn't do at all.

I don't lie awake at night thinking about failed business deals.

The trip to Japan I never took because I was too busy.

The relationship with my brother that I let deteriorate.

The book I always wanted to write but never started.

The time I didn't spend with my kids because I was working late.

The missed opportunities, the roads not taken.

The risks you didn't take because you were afraid.

Your parents, your siblings, your close friends.

You think you have unlimited time with them.

We had a complicated relationship and I was always too busy to really work on it.

I kept thinking we'd have time to talk when I was less busy.

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