The Key to Longevity Is Boring
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End (Wellcome Collection)
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- Lifestyle. This may be the big one. Several clues are starting to emerge that point to parallels between the lifestyles of super agers. Healthy-aging researchers have identified four common habits.
A physically and intellectually active lifestyle.
The willingness or ability to constantly challenge oneself.
An active social life and a wide social netw... See more
Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers
“The main things are to commit to some simple behaviors—meditating, exercising, getting enough sleep—and to practice altruism.… And nurture your social connections.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
his guidelines are more like a fundamental code of everyday living: - know your long-range purposes - work in the service of some cause that you can respect - attempt to live and work in an environment in line with your own innate values - develop a philosophy of gratitude - reduce procrastination – it can be dangerous - use muscular activity to al
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