Seven ways to increase the odds of living long into your retirement years (if you choose to retire).
Show Notes
Podcast Stats: How many podcasts are there?—Listen Notes
Quality Over Quantity Is A Growth Strategy by Steven Goldstein—Amplifi Media
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport—Penguin Random House
Why our brains crave beauty, art and nature by Jemima Kelly—The Financial Times
Why southern Europeans will soon be the longest-lived people in the world—The Economist
What I’ve learnt from two decades eating in Paris by Simon Kuper—The Financial Times
Getting Good Sleep Could Add Years to Your Life—American College of Cardiology
Close friends can help you live longer but they can spread some bad habits too by Maggie Mertens—NPR
Why I’ve hung up my wellies and given up the country cottage by Tom Hodgkinson—The Financial Times
An Emersonian Guide to Taking Control of Your Life by Arthur C. Brooks—The Atlantic
Why you should never retire—The Economist
It’s not so ‘terribly strange to be 70’ by Anne Lamott—The Washington Post
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Transcript
Welcome to Money for the Rest of Us. This is a personal finance show on money, how it works, how to invest it, and how to live without worrying about it. I’m your host, David Stein. Today is episode 484. It’s titled “How to Live Forever, or at Least a Very Long Time.”
How Money for the Rest of Us Podcast Topics Are Chosen
We’re approaching 500 free episodes on Money for the Rest of Us, and almost 1,000 if we include the premium episodes for members of our Money for the Rest of Us Plus community. LaPriel often jokes that someday I’m going to run out of topics to talk about.
Topics arrive as long as I’m engaged in the world, researching, learning, visiting with people. Usually, I have several topics doing in the background, but occasionally, like this week, the topic I was going to discuss just isn’t ready.
In that case, it was on world population. It turns out July 11th is World Population Day, which I didn’t know existed, but it’s also the day the United Nations releases its latest projections for the global population in the decades ahead. And since it’s been two years since their last release, I thought “Well, I’m gonna wait to talk about those trends until after we have new data.”
For decades now, I have tracked notes on what I happened to be reading. It could be a study from an academic journal, an article from a newspaper, books I’m reading. I used to use a wiki called Social Text, and then they went under, and then I used Evernote for a while. For the last four years, I’ve used Rome Research. And so when I can’t find something to talk about, I’ll go into Rome Research and look at articles I have saved recently, and see if there’s a theme. And it turns out there was actually a theme that we could call “How to live a very long time, and to do so happily.”
Now, that’s not a strictly investments related theme, or an economics related theme, or even a monetary theme. But as we save and invest for retirement, and many of us look forward to retirement, we want to make sure that we’re living as healthily as possible. Recognize that some of us, through heredity, genetics, whatever, will get sick, and die sooner than we would have liked.
We’re getting ready for our mid-summer break, so there won’t be a podcast episode next week. These breaks are important. It allows us to recharge. That’s why we do one mid-year, we do one more extended break at the end of the year. But as I looked through Roam Research to see what I’ve been saving, what I’ve been studying, one of the things that has preoccupied my mind the last couple of months, and really continuously, is how do we keep participating and growing a thriving business?
The State of Podcasting
I have always, as long as I can remember, thought about business and business strategy. Even as a preteen, at age 12, I convinced my mom to purchase a copywriting course. I didn’t know it was a copywriting course, but it was a course from someone that had taken out a full-page ad in The Cincinnati Enquirer, an individual standing in front of a motor home and promising that he would teach us how to make money in business.
And I launched numerous businesses throughout high school, running classified ads. Most weren’t successful. The handwriting analysis business was not successful. A research services business was not successful. The only successful businesses were those involving my hands: washing windows, mowing lawns.”
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