The Half-Known Life: What Matters Most When You’re Running out of Time

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“I’m going down now,” I said to a young woman a few seconds before the darkness—my first cardiac arrest. As I returned to work as a behavioral coach, it became maddening to hear about everyday problems while I fought to remain conscious.

The Half-Known Life challenges conventional thinking of success, identity, and personal change. Most often, truly profound change happens following events that shake someone to their core—a car accident, death of a family member, or cardiac arrest that pulls them into clarity. Priorities change when time becomes precious. Problems look different when you have no energy left to give them. After all, marathon runners don’t say much on mile twenty; they choose to breathe. And I, too, choose to breathe.

Why wait for a life-changing event to occur before getting real about your life? Get out of your head and get into your life, before it slips away.