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Why “living each day like it’s your last” is bad advice

Joshua Bradley
Jul 29, 2017 · 3 min read

A vendor I frequent at the weekly farmer’s market was emphatically describing how healthy I looked, “amazing!” and recounting how frightened she was for me a few months back when I visited her booth while recovering from complications from major surgery, “like the walking dead!”. She espoused the advice she had once read, “live each day like it’s your last”. In the moment I considered each word…

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Joshua Bradley

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Passionate about making life better. Autoimmune athlete, IBD-hacker, Single-speed crusader. Co-founder, levered.com

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