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Rewriting the Rules of Aging: How to Live Well in a 100-Year Life
Let’s start by acknowledging something really important: people are living longer nowadays. We’re talking about outliving our parents and even our grandparents. And guess what? Our kids and grandkids are likely to live even longer than us. It’s a big deal, especially, when we are discussing deliberate living. This presents us with a great opportunity to plan for a longer life and to make our lives more meaningful and full of possibilities. It means we have more time to spend with our loved ones, pursue our passions, and create meaningful legacies.
But here’s the thing: despite having all this extra time, we’re still stuck in this mindset of always hustling, living by rigid routines and to-do lists, and trying to be super productive. It’s like we’re on a never-ending treadmill of catching up with life, without really stopping to think about what makes life truly worth living.
To throw things into perspective here is an excerpt from a book that I have been reading. The book’s name is “The 100-Year Life,” by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott. According to the authors, there is research showing that over the last 200 years, our life expectancy has expanded at a steady rate of more than two years every decade. They further add — “if you are now 20, you have a 50 percent chance of living to more than 100; if you are…
