Memento Mori, Memento Vivere

Use an exercise about death to help you live a better life.

Elaine Kasket
Nov 7 · 8 min read
Photo by Edgar Perez on Unsplash

A couple of days ago, I was sent a new book to review, a daily diary that’s designed to help people live a more self-aware and values-aligned life. Flicking through its pages, I spotted that the authors, both of them psychologists like me, had included a variety of values-clarification and values-tracking exercises…

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Elaine Kasket

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Psychologist, writer, keynote speaker. Author of All the Ghosts in the Machine (2019): https://amzn.to/2Qdrq95

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