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We’re approaching the end of 2023, and Further is about to take a holiday break where we start preparing for a pivotal 2024. It’s an interesting time of change. Our generation has been defined by big changes, and we’re likely facing the most consequential shift of all. Next year, every Baby Boomer will be age …
Will Generation X be the first generation to live much longer? I’ve made that case before based on longevity trends and the prospects for age-reversal treatments in the next 20 years. And yet, the United States isn’t doing all that well in terms of average life expectancy right now: Newly published data on life expectancy …
Now that we’re past Thanksgiving in the U.S., the holiday season is in full effect. There will be eating, and drinking, and general merriment. Why not indulge? Your fitness goals can wait until January — that’s what New Year’s resolutions are for, right? Well, we all know by now how dismal the success rate is …
The media mythos around the young innovative entrepreneur turns out to be … just a myth. We already know that the average age of a successful startup founder is 45. But what may surprise you is that entrepreneurs over the age of 50 are more innovative than their younger counterparts. Whether you’re driven by radical …
The year is 1994. In February, the film Reality Bites debuts, designed to chronicle the unique experiences of a new generation. In April, Kurt Cobain – the reluctant voice of that generation – is found dead from a self-inflicted shotgun blast. And in September, a new show called Friends premiers on NBC, becoming the surprise …
In college, the only course I ever flunked was Philosophy 101. At 18, I just couldn’t wrap my head around the exploration of the meaning of life. Now, I can’t get enough of it. Having lived for more than a half-century through numerous extreme events and had the audacity to perpetuate the human race with …
When Social Security was introduced in 1935, the concept of “retirement” was essentially new. It was a bold move to protect older people, many of whom did backbreaking manual labor and needed a way to stop working. The U.S. government knew that most workers wouldn’t even make it to age 62 and, therefore, would never …
Steve Jobs gave a famous commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 that has been summed up as “Follow your passion.” Here’s what Jobs actually said: You’ve got to find what you love…. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t …
By now you’re familiar with the midlife transition, or as we like to call it, midlife dissatisfaction. Not quite a crisis, but certainly a vague sense of discontent. In other words, you’re less-than-happy in your forties. But then 50 comes around, and according to research, things start to turn around and keep going in a …
When people finally decide to turn to meditation, it’s often due to suffering. You’re stressed, anxious, and unhappy thanks to unwelcome thoughts and a mind that seems to have turned against you. It’s actually the default mode network (DMN) inside your brain that’s working against you. When you’re thinking about the past or worrying about …
You can’t avoid being told to move more at every turn. And for good reason, as it’s the key to vastly improving your quality of life, now and as you get older. But sometimes the advice doesn’t hit the way it needs to despite the benefits. And that’s when you might need to look at …
There’s a reason they call us the “sandwich generation.” That’s when people at middle-age care for both their aging parents and their own children to varying degrees. It’s a historically unique situation because on one hand our parents are living longer, while on the other we delayed having our own kids until later in life. …