Why We Should Stop Trying To Live Longer & How Curiosity Leads To Compassion
In this powerful conversation, physician and bestselling author Dr Gabor Maté explores the five life lessons people often learn too late, drawing on decades of work in trauma, stress, addiction, and end‑of‑life care.
Using Bronnie Ware’s Five Regrets of the Dying as a framework, Maté reflects on why we overwork, suppress emotions, struggle with authenticity, and disconnect from our needs. He challenges the cultural obsession with “living longer” and instead argues for living more fully, with curiosity, compassion, and emotional honesty.
The episode is rich with wisdom on healing, presence, forgiveness, and what it means to live without self‑punishing regret.
