For a decade I've obsessively studied and self-experimented with tools and technologies to enhance and motivate the passionate pursuit of meaning in one's life. What I long ignored was death.
And while death can be delayed by taking fancy anti-aging supplements, fasting, and abstaining from the cheap hedonistic thrills that the world shoves in your face relentlessly there's a reason we call it "the inevitable" and "the great equalizer." So remember death - momento mori - let it motivate you to boldly take measured risks in architecting your destiny.
If the +12,000-year-old transmission from the past that I mentioned here intrigues you, go deeper with my book review of "Magicians of the Gods"