not thinking about physics and you're not thinking about mathematics and you just get to breathe in the air and look around you and realize that you're going to die one day you know you think about that um your ideas will live on but you the human not not especially much but certainly i've been getting getting older i'm now NUMBER_TOKEN years old you start to realize well there's probably less ahead than there was behind and so you start to that starts to become you know wait what do i think about that maybe i should actually get serious about some getting some things done which i which i may not have which i may otherwise not have time to do which i didn't see this didn't seem to be a problem when i was younger but um that's the main i think the main way in which that thought occurs but it doesn't uh you know the stoics are big on this meditating on mortality helps you more intensely appreciate the beauty when you do experience it i suppose that's true but it's not yeah it's not not something i've spent a lot of time trying but um but yeah day to day you just enjoy the positive mathematics just enjoy yeah or our life in general life is have a perfectly pleasant life and enjoy enjoy it and often think wow this is i think things are i'm really enjoying those things are going well yeah life is pretty amazing yeah i think you and i are pretty lucky we get to uh live on this nice little earth yeah with a nice little comfortable climate and we get to have this nice little podcast conversation thank you so much for spending your valuable time with me today and having this conversation thank you glad thank you thank you thanks for listening to this conversation with peter white to support this podcast please check out our sponsors in the description and now let me leave you some words from richard feynman the first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool thank you for listening and hope to see you next time
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