Philosophical
What if meaning isn't found, but made?
Paul Kalanithi spent years training to save lives. Then, at 36, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Overnight, he went from doctor to patient. And that shift changed what he thought mattered.
You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.— Paul Kalanithi, *When Breath Becomes Air*
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The thinker
Neurosurgeon & Writer
Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon and writer whose memoir When Breath Becomes Air, completed before his death from lung cancer at 37, explores identity, mortality, and what makes life worth living.
Based on When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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