Brian Clark

Hello! Well, Trudi is off this week, and I’m struggling with getting my daughter moved into her first apartment (in more ways than one). So, this seems like a good time for a roundup issue of Further. Fortunately, there’s plenty of good stuff to share. Let’s take a look: Micronutrient Manual Vitamins and minerals are …

Midlife is ripe for reinvention. That’s why Further focuses so much on the dynamics of change. Adding to the natural inclination to reevaluate the path we’re on at this age, we’ve had the disruption of COVID-19. And that’s given just about everyone an opportunity to reflect on a career change. In an online poll about …

When we were young, they called us cynical slackers. We definitely proved them wrong about the slacker part. We’re the hardest working cohort in the labor force (although underappreciated), and the most entrepreneurial. As for cynical, well, there have been good reasons for that. But we’re also pragmatic as hell, and we have an uncommon …

Last week we explored the process of creating your future self. It all begins with using your imagination to visualize the specific person you want to be, instead of allowing your memories from the past to define who you are. You then focus on the steps to get there while never losing sight of the …

Thinking about the future can be nerve-wracking. Especially when we can’t anticipate how accelerating change is going to impact our lives. So we try to predict the future, usually relying on pundits and prognosticators to tell us what’s going to happen. Truth is, no one can predict the future, because the future is not something …

The last year-and-a-half has been a time of disruption that led to reflection. Now, we’re seeing the result — defection. People have realized that life is too short to work for a bad boss, or earn a living that provides compensation but very little in terms of satisfaction. Most of the headlines center on service …

We live in stressful times. Pandemic stress. Political stress. Relationship stress. Outside of all that, though, financial uncertainty is the number one source of stress for Americans, according to the American Psychological Association. And in reality, the only thing you can do about financial stress is make more or spend less. Usually that means sacrifice …

Maybe you were one of the people who leveled up your fitness during the pandemic. Instead of wallowing in food, drink, and Netflix, you started running and lifting weights. Meanwhile, the fastest-growing food trends in America are meat and dairy alternatives. People from all walks of life are embracing a plant-based lifestyle when not long …

What’s the meaning of life? Well, from an existential standpoint, the meaning life is whatever meaning you attribute to it. It’s a subjective thing. A more objective way to look at it is the meaning of life is the experience of living itself. While we ruminate about the past or fret about the future, profound …

What’s worse than feeling you haven’t lived the life you want? Some may say fear of failure outranks regret, but that’s not what you’ll hear from those who are facing death. They’ll tell you that they wish they’d taken more chances. After all, when you’re facing death, you’re acutely aware that this life is not …

In the last 200 years or so, the human lifespan has essentially doubled. That’s an amazing achievement. There’s a good chance that in the next 10-20 years, we’ll begin to push the envelope on that elevated average lifespan. The massive amount of investment in longevity science and efforts to defeat the diseases of aging seem …

It feels like a whole new world. Two weeks to the day after my second Moderna shot, the CDC revised its recommendations for fully-vaccinated folks. This prompted a whole lot of return visits to places I hadn’t been in over a year, often seeing people I haven’t seen in that same amount of time. Stuff …