write your own obituary like Alfred Nobel did
write your own obituary like Alfred Nobel did. Write down what you want to be remembered for, what you want to have accomplished,. Look back at your life as it nears its end can truly be useful and determining what you want to devote your most precious time to. What do you want to leave behind tangibly, I notionally associated?
— from The Landing (Death)
In the book
Write the short eulogy you would want your closest friend to give. Alfred Nobel, the story goes, once read his own obituary by accident — a newspaper had confused him with his brother — and so disliked the man he found described there that he rewrote the rest of his life on purpose; you can do the same deliberately, writing down now what you want to have been and to have done. The playwright J.M. […] Then the concrete steps — a short checklist to close the teaching: Write your own landing first. Compose the eulogy you would want, draft the obituary you would be proud of, and then fly backward from it. Sit, at least once, in the imagined hospital bed and let it sort the urgent from the trivial. — The Landing (Death)