I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life
With much sensitivity to the physical and emotional turmoil the author must be experiencing right now, I disagree with his advice:<p>&gt; Stop just assuming you have a full lifetime to do whatever it is you dream of doing.<p>Rare and catastrophic events like this that can severely shorten your life are ones you should not plan for. If they occur, that&#x27;s very unfortunate, and maybe you&#x27;ll still have a contingency plan that can rearrange your plans to fit the remainder of your life, but he was still right to have arranged his life from the start to maximize his expected (in the statistical sense) impact:<p>&gt; Before this diagnosis I’d been thinking of my 1st 35 years — aside from being a ton of fun and travel — as preparation. I felt like I was building a platform (savings, networks, skills, experience) that I could then use in my second act to make a real contribution, to “make my mark”<p>&quot;Most of the time&quot;, he would have been right to use the early part of his life to make long-term investments in his development. It&#x27;s just that this time it turned out to be the wrong choice.