Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip involves improving your life by asking a deceptively
Speaker 1: simple question, would you choose to live today over again?
Speaker 1: So I live in Pennsylvania, which is also the home
Speaker 1: of a famous groundhog known as Punksitani Phil, and this
Speaker 1: episode is first airing shortly after February two. Each year.
Speaker 1: On that day, a huge crowd gathers to see if
Speaker 1: Phil will see his shadow or not. This augurs whether
Speaker 1: there will be six more weeks of winter or something
Speaker 1: like that. Groundhog Day is a rather silly holiday, but
Speaker 1: a few decades ago it became the title of a
Speaker 1: movie based on a fascinating premise. Phil Connors, a not
Speaker 1: terribly pleasant TV personality, visiting the Groundhog Day festivities, get
Speaker 1: stuck living Groundhog Day over and over again. At first,
Speaker 1: he is defiant about the whole time warp, but eventually
Speaker 1: he decides that if this is the day he has,
Speaker 1: he is going to live it right. And this premise
Speaker 1: gets at an old existential question, how would we live
Speaker 1: if we were sentenced to live any given period of
Speaker 1: time over and over? Again, I imagine we have different answers,
Speaker 1: but there are probably certain things we do. We wouldn't
Speaker 1: fly off the handle about silly things. We wouldn't make
Speaker 1: choices that we knew would make us feel bad later.
Speaker 1: We would spend time with people who energize us and
Speaker 1: make us feel good about life. We would spend less
Speaker 1: time with people who don't meet those criteria, And I'd
Speaker 1: like to think we'd spend less time on things that
Speaker 1: are all about filling time. Scrolling through tweeted insults feels
Speaker 1: pretty pointless the first time around. Multiplying that by eternity
Speaker 1: is mind boggling. Of course, we are not actually going
Speaker 1: to live today over and over again, but I think
Speaker 1: this is a good question to ask, as we're looking
Speaker 1: back over any given day, what aspects of the day
Speaker 1: would we not mind reliving and what do we really
Speaker 1: wish to consign to the past. Asking this question can
Speaker 1: help us think through what the good life would look like.
Speaker 1: A day I'd live over and over again probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: involve waiting for a groundhog to pop up, but I
Speaker 1: would like to savor a good cup of coffee, run
Speaker 1: somewhere beautiful, and snuggle with my kids. I don't think
Speaker 1: those things would ever get old. How about you? What
Speaker 1: would your answers be In the meantime, This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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