Putting a finite number of beads in a jar to represent your mortality seems like one of the most harmful psychological priming effects you could undertake. Short of hiring an assassin, I don't know of a better way to ensure that you'll die within a month of some specified date.
If someone recommended that you prepare yourself for your failures by repeating to yourself 50 times a day "I am certain to horrendously screw up everything that I undertake", would that seem like sage advice? All I can say is "don't be surprised when you're right".
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Putting a finite number of beads in a jar to represent your mortality seems like one of the most harmful psychological priming effects you could undertake. Short of hiring an assassin, I don't know of a better way to ensure that you'll die within a month of some specified date.
If someone recommended that you prepare yourself for your failures by repeating to yourself 50 times a day "I am certain to horrendously screw up everything that I undertake", would that seem like sage advice? All I can say is "don't be surprised when you're right".
Terrible idea.
The beads represented years of productivity. How many 80 year olds do you know that are not retired from their life's work? Not many.
I wonder if this is related to the number of 40 year olds convinced that being useless at 80 is unavoidable.