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What Would Your “Deathbed Self” Tell You Today? | Lauren Deeley | TED
What Would Your “Deathbed Self” Tell You Today? | Lauren Deeley | TED
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I want you to imagine yourself on your deathbed.
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But you're smiling.
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Your soul is exhausted and full.
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What do you look like?
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What are you wearing?
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Who's with you, where are you?
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Everything in my life that I'm most proud of,
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I can attribute to conversations
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that I've had with someone very important to me.
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Her name is Deathbed Deeley.
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(Laughter)
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Let me explain.
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I have this deep, crystal-clear relationship
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with my future, deathbed self.
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She has deep smile lines from a lifetime spent laughing,
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leathery skin from spending so much time outside,
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long gray hair.
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And before you think I'm crazy for talking to my deathbed self,
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there's actual research to back up this approach
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to making big, bold decisions.
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Hal Hershfield, the UCLA psychologist and professor,
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has shown that our brains actually treat our future selves
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as a completely separate person from our today-self.
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And this can make it really hard
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to make decisions that benefit our long-term well-being.
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And his research also showed
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that when we can stay connected to our future selves,
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we often lead more fulfilling lives.
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So for me, deathbed Deeley isn't another person.
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She's me, I'm her right now.
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And our conversations have led me on a wild path
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that so far has taken me to a career where I get to help other people
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talk to their own deathbed selves.
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And no, I'm not a late-night TV psychic.
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I work in financial planning and wealth management.
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(Laughter)
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I know, it's not what I was expecting either,
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but hear me out.
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My career is about so much more than just managing your money.
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It's about helping you envision your future self
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to get to know him or her or them,
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and then be their advocate
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so that today-you can go make big, bold decisions.
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But let's back up.
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The first time I met Deathbed Deeley, I was 22 years old
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and I had this insane opportunity to take all my meager savings
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and buy a hostel in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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Now there are about a thousand "what ifs"
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and "what can go wrongs" with a decision like this.
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So with the sellers on the phone, like, an actual corded phone,
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I sat on a bed,
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closed my eyes,
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and I asked myself:
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What would my future self think?
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And then I saw her.
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Laugh lines, gray hair, aspen trees out the window.
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I imagined walking away from the deal,
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and there was this look of deep disappointment
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on Deathbed Deeley's face.
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And then I imagined saying yes.
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She got this wry little smile, and this sense of deep, powerful,
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calm energy filled my body.
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The choice was clear: I was buying a hostel.
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(Laughter)
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Now fast forward, a few years ago,
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I got a call from two friends of a great client.
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To protect their privacy, we'll call them Alex and Avery.
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Alex and Avery had just experienced the sudden passing of a dear friend
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just hours after they'd been skiing together.
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Their friend was 62 years old.
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And this awakened something in them that they had known for quite some time.
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The typical plan of work until 65, then retire, then finally live,
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was wrong for them.
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What they wanted was to work until age 55,
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take a ten-year "pre-retirement,"
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spending time with the people they love,
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doing the things that they love.
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Then they'd go back to the workforce at age 65,
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in novel, low-stress jobs.
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This is my catnip.
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So we sat down,
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we put a plan in place that was personalized to them.
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And what I can tell you is that as they're moving towards this goal,
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they are experiencing more joy, more spaciousness,
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because they're on a path that's right for their future selves.
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Now back in the pandemic,
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I got a call from one of my favorite people in the whole world.
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We'll call her Lil.
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Lil's life had just fallen apart.
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Her words.
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She'd been living in Vermont, teaching art,
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when suddenly the world shut down and her mother passed away.
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So she goes out to the west coast to visit some friends.
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She stops into a little shop that she'd known for years.
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The shop owner was also struggling -- pandemic --
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and offered Lil the chance to take over the business.
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Now for most people,
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buying a retail business in the middle of a global shutdown
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would be a hard no.
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But Lil said yes, instantly.
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She had no plan, no idea how it would work out,
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no business experience.
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But when she got quiet and thought about her future,
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it was an immediate “hell yes.”
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So we got to work.
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We mapped out the cash flow needs, the runway, the safety net,
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the investment plan we'd leg into as the business started to succeed.
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And now, five years later, I can tell you, the shop is thriving.
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From that moment in the pandemic,
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Lil's life has exploded in abundance
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in ways that I don't think either of us could have imagined.
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All because she followed that one clear yes
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from her future self.
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Now I believe the purpose of life is to be able to get to the end
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and look back and say, "Damn!
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I lived that one."
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(Laughter)
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Yeah, my people are like, right here.
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(Laughter)
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And that starts with having better conversations.
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Go find a financial partner who will meet you where you're at,
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ask better questions, listen.
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Who will help you get to know your future self and be their advocate.
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And most importantly,
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go talk to your deathbed selves.
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Our deathbed selves are so attuned to our core values
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that when we really take the time to envision
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and relate to who we will be in that moment
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when the veil between this life and the next gets thin,
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we act according to what really matters to our soul.
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And when we make decisions with that framework,
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we will all have the joy of looking back on our lives exhausted, smiling
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and ready for the next adventure.
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Thank you.
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(Cheers and applause)
