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From the September 13, 2023 issue of Further I collect nuggets of wisdom, and topping the list comes from a dear friend who died at 46: Don’t postpone joy. At our age, where our crystallized intelligence gained from experience is rocking, you’d think we’d know what delights us and do it. But most of us …
From the September 6, 2023 issue of FurtherConfession time: I binge-watched Dan Buettner’s new series, Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, over a bag of Doritos and a high-octane IPA. Hypocritical? Sure. A bird-flip not just to Buettner’s longevity work but also what I write about, preach, and live by? Absolutely. But honestly, …
From the August 30, 2023 issue of Further I’m about to assert something that might make you uncomfortable: You are a hero. We all can be if we take a page out of Joseph Campbell’s book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Long-time Brian Clark fans should recognize the construct, as he’s taught marketers about …
From the August 16, 2023 issue of Further A friend lost everything he owned in the Maui fires. Cancer, now prevalent in younger people, has landed another friend’s 45-year-old spouse in hospice. Even a quick drive around my suburban LA town takes me past a picket line, a homeless encampment, and a slew of boarded-up …
From the August 16, 2023 issue of Further When you want to push the reset button, there’s perhaps no better way than to leave the comfort of your home and travel. Going to exotic foreign places can be a terrific mechanism of personal growth that expands your mind, perspective, and resilience. But in our tumultuous, …
From the August 2, 2023 issue of Further The present is all we have. As a meditation teacher, that’s our most common refrain — let go of thoughts past and future, and you’ll find the power of now. Awesome in theory but complicated in practice. You’re working against a combo platter of human nature and brain …
From the July 19, 2023 issue of Further Having healthy boundaries is self-care 101. It’s about setting limits and rules for how interpersonal relationships work best for you and sticking to them. While that’s easy enough in some situations, it can get tricky when dealing with challenging family members — as we midlife folk often must …
We human beings love to categorize things. And not just because we’re petty or tribalistic (although, admittedly, we often are), but because our brains are hard-wired to put things in buckets to make sense of the world. This is one of the mind’s most important capabilities; it’s incredibly valuable to be able to tell at …
From the July 12, 2023 issue of Further “Summer vacation” when you were a kid was music to your ears. “Summer vacation” as an adult can sound more like a cruel oxymoron — especially when weather and travel are unpredictable, your travel companions are demanding, and inflation makes even a staycation costly. Still, we’re in the …
If you read the headlines, you might believe our generation is doomed to a grim future. Just Google “Gen X,” and let the barrage begin with articles like: Dude, Gen X is totally unprepared for retirement, survey finds, Broke Generation: 64% of Gen Xers have stopped saving for retirement, and Gen X Feeling the Retirement …
Times are changing, fast. We’ve talked a lot here at Further about how AI is upending our lives, potentially taking our jobs precisely when we need them most. But there’s one place where experts say AI can’t replace us, and that’s in the creativity department. As writer J. Thorn says in his book on AI-powered …
From the June 21, 2023 issue of Further In Gretchen Rubin’s classic book, The Happiness Project, first published when my daughter was seven, she wrote a line that always got me: The days are long, but the years are short. Cut to today, when I’m headed to my daughter’s college graduation, and I realize those …