Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #105 — Spoiler alert: We are all equal in death.Roman poet Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis, known in English as "Juvenal," drove this message home simply over 19 centuries ago:“The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.”Ryan Holliday recently captured it quite simply: "[Death] makes quick work of all of us, big and small." It matters not how famous or loved or wealthy or powerful you are, any one of us could be gone at any moment. I hold that the great equalizer is NOT an invitation to play small or safe. In fact, quite the opposite. If we all end up fertilizer in the end, I choose to believe that we are invited, if not compelled, to play as big as we possibly can. Why not? What does playing big look like for you?
Posted by David Taylor-Klaus on Monday, February 24, 2020
Mindset Mondays with DTK – Ep #105 — Spoiler alert: We are all equal in death.
Roman poet Decimus Iūnius Iuvenālis, known in English as “Juvenal,” drove this message home simply over 19 centuries ago:
“The world was not big enough for Alexander the Great, but a coffin was.”
Ryan Holliday recently captured it quite simply: “[Death] makes quick work of all of us, big and small.” It matters not how famous or loved or wealthy or powerful you are, any one of us could be gone at any moment. I hold that the great equalizer is NOT an invitation to play small or safe. In fact, quite the opposite. If we all end up fertilizer in the end, I choose to believe that we are invited, if not compelled, to play as big as we possibly can. Why not?
What does playing big look like for you?
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