That’s what people say when they can’t be bothered to do something, “Life’s too short.” It’s a lazy cop out from losing weight, from saving money, from knuckling down – and we all know it’s bull s**t as we say it.

Sure, life is too short to pull your hair out over every lost Twitter follower. Too short to scream from the roof tops when your 8 year-old’s football team loses a game. But it isn’t too short for a bit of effort – that’s always underrated.

When there are folks like this and these beating all the odds science and nature throws at them, are we learning life isn’t long enough to be doing more for ourselves?