Tolstoy's Guide to Wasting Your Life | The Death of Ivan Ilyich

How should we best spent our finite time on this earth? This is an excellent question pondered by philosophers for thousands of years. But in Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, he asks a different question: how would we waste our lives, and die unfulfilled, having never taken control of our existence.

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00:00 Wasting our Lives
01:07 Memento Mori
05:11 Social Roles and Societal Lies
09:30 Alone in Public
15:05 The World of Ivan Ilyich