Name: 不要把每一天都當作最後一天來過｜Leana Delle｜TEDxMountainViewCollege(山景學院) (Don't Live Each Day As If It Were Your Last | Leana Delle | TEDxMountainViewCollege)
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Duration: 13 min 27 s
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Translator: Yifei Zhang Reviewer: Denise RQ

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How many of you have heard that expression before?

How many of you actually do that each day?

I'm going to talk a bit about the expression,

I'm going to give you some reasons why I think it's a bad idea,

and I am going to argue for another alternative.

I did some research, and what it appears though is

this is just one of those expressions that's been around forever.

I found where several people apparently have said it throughout history

but I couldn't find its origin solidly link to any one person in particular.

Like most of you, I've been hearing it most of my life,

and most recently, while watching Steve Jobs

giving his now famous commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 on YouTube.

In that speech, he specifically said that by that time,

out of looking in the mirror each morning and asking himself,

would I want to do what I'm about to do today?"

And if the answer was no for too many days in a row

I completely get where he was going with this;

don't settle for second best or waste time,

shake things up by using discomfort as a change motivator.

but here's what happened when I tried it.

Having fully bought in to Steve's suggestion,

I woke up the morning after watching the video,

I leaned in for a closer look at my reflection in the mirror,

and I said exactly the same words he did.

Almost immediately, however, I got depressed.

I hadn't been depressed the night before;

in fact, I'd been relatively content at bedtime,

Am I really going to go into work, even if I love it?

Am I going to subject myself to rush-hour traffic?

Am I going to run menial errands or speak to people who get on my nerves?

And what about that well-women's appointment with my OBGYN?

Where I am going to go if it's my last day is Paris.

And I'm going to max out all my credit cards

to take all the people that I love with me.

I'm going to smoke French cigarettes, even though I quit years ago.

I'm going to eat and drink whatever I want,

I'm also going to wear the most absurd outfit that I can think of

that makes me feel whimsical and eccentric

instead of conservative and socially acceptable.

If it were literally my last day on the planet,

So I watched in the mirror that first morning

and the rest of the day was essentially shot

as was the day after that, and the day after that

because like any good experiment, you have to try it more than once.

There are a few things about living each day like it's your last

First, there's the sense of panic that can ensue

when faced with an imminent expiration day whether real or hypothetical.

and I'm sure that's not the first time you've heard that either.

I know that if I say, "I have got to," versus, "I really want you,"

Also, in our last day scenarios - again, mine being Paris -

are entirely based on us being physically capable

of pulling off all of the things on our list for a last day,

meaning, in order for us to actually die,

there would have to be some kind of freak accident or natural disaster

Personally, I'd rather have one of those gorgeous Parisians

take me out for dinner before midnight, but I digress.

My career has spanned from oncology to heart transplantation,

They can be peaceful at times; sometimes, they are not.

But not one person that I've taken care of

has been physically capable of accomplishing any huge thing