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When you die, your name has a shelf life. For some, it's going to be a lot longer than for others. It could be thousands of years before you're forgotten, but forgotten you will become. It may be hard to believe, but someday, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Taylor Swift, and the Beatles will all be forgotten, and likely sooner than you think.

You are a creative genius. The one thing you need to do to unlock your creative superpower is to subscribe to my paid creativity seminar. Kidding. I don't have anything to sell. But truly, I think creativity actually is for everyone. Humans like to label people a lot, whether it be smart, dumb, preppy, ghetto, this, that, et cetera. And maybe those labels are even true sometimes. But I think creativity is a little different, though. What we often label as creative is more

I was really confused for most of my life. Growing up, I always thought I had a good idea of the way of the world, but there were a lot of gaping holes in how I thought that just didn't address very much. In some ways, I was blissfully unaware of how confused I really was. Back then, I was definitely a little naive and even gullible. I just wanted to believe everyone I talked to in regard to whatever they were preaching to me, and I tended to assume other people must know

There's someone on Reddit who plans to shave their head and get a tattoo on it and then grow their hair back out so they can have a secret tattoo. A few years back, a ninety-nine-year-old Dutch woman asked to be handcuffed and put in prison even though she hadn't committed a crime. Why, you might ask? Well, because these things were on their “bucket lists”. These ones made me laugh, but when I really think of a bucket list, I tend to imagine the panic gasping of a drowning

I think we sometimes confuse having status with having] respect. Thankfully, respect isn't really something you can buy, inherit, or have bestowed upon you by another person or entity. It's truly not a thing to be passed around like a commodity, which is part of what makes it so valuable. A military platoon may report to a young officer, but the person with the highest respect may be one of the veteran soldiers who proved themselves in combat.

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “Forgiving Ourselves.” Some people are basically ninjas when it comes to finding ways to avoid guilt and ownership of their wrongdoings. I just dedicated an entire episode to those types of peop

People will go to incredible lengths to protect their self-image. [ As much as we have the capacity to feel guilt over things we shouldn't feel guilty about, we also have the ability to smother that guilt and avoid it by stretching the truth, minimizing the seriousness of things, and blaming others. I don't entirely fault people for this.

A lot of people inherit money at some point in their life. But others inherit something far more valuable, and a lucky few might even inherit both. I've been one of those fortunate people who periodically has been gifted money from family members in the past. Nothing to make me rich, but more like a little here and a little there. Every time it happened though, it felt like a godsend, but of course, I'm not sure there's ever an untimely time for money to arrive. But as he

When I was a kid, there was a drink that was popular called Sunny Delight. I think they still sell it, but it's nowhere near as prevalent as it used to be. You might call it a type of orange juice, but that might be too generous of a term. I think maybe a more appropriate name might be orange flavored sugar.