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Aging Well
Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Study of Adult Development | George E. Vaillant
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In an unprecedented series of studies, Harvard Medical School has followed 824 subjects -- men and women, some rich, some poor -- from their teens to old age. Harvard's George Vaillant now uses these studies -- the most complete ever done anywhere in the world -- and the subjects' individual histories to illustrate the factors involved in reaching a happy, healthy old age. He explains precisely why some people turn out to be more resilient than others, the complicated effects of marriage and divorce, negative personality changes, and how to live a more fulfilling, satisfying and rewarding life in the later years. He shows why a person's background has less to do with their eventual happiness than the specific lifestyle choices they make. And he offers step-by-step advice about how each of us can change our lifestyles and age successfully. Sure to be debated on talk shows and in living rooms, Vaillant's definitive and inspiring book is the new classic account of how we live and how we can live better. It will receive massive media attention, and with good reason: we have never seen anything like it, and what it has to tell us will make all the difference in the world.
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JulietReads I'll try. 5y
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😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Ohh, Dorian... #LitsyHumor

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😳🙈 Like, ears and nostrils and mouth??? #LitsyHumor

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Amiable As a former newspaper copy editor, this makes me cringe. 😬 5y
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Craftylikefox Who thought that was a good headline 😂 5y
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Reggie lol I got the same age. If it puts me somewhere near Glenn Close, sure what the hell, why not. Lol 7y
Amie I also got 68 😂 This is one quiz where I'm pretty happy with a result that's way older than I am. 7y
Fortifiedbybooks I got the same age, even though I'm only 37. I talk with a lot of older people and read a lot of older books, though, so I'm ok with that. 7y
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Yeah_I_Read @amie exactly lol 7y
Yeah_I_Read @Reggie exactly 😊 7y
tricours I got 45, but then I'm not a native English speaker so I rarely, for example, greet someone in English 😁 7y
Reese_Pearly.Pages Same result for me. 🙂 7y
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Jayhawk_In_Texas
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I finally broke down and got a pair of reading glasses. I don't need them all the time yet, but too many hours studying massive spreadsheets and reading over the years made them inevitable. 🤓 #ageisjustanumber

DebinHawaii They look awesome on you! 👓💜 7y
Jayhawk_In_Texas Thanks @DebinHawaii! I ordered them online so I had no idea how they would turn out. A guy I'm seeing said "I'm digging the bookish librarian look," so there's that. ? 7y
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2016, Book 12 "Aging slows us down and provides us time and peace to smell life's flowers...Aging banks our instinctual fires and increases our capacity to be internally quiet. Aging compels us to contemplate death and to familarise ourselves with ceasing to be a special and "terminally unique" wave. Aging focuses us toward becoming one with the ultimate ground of all being. Aging allows us to feel part of the ocean."

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