Aging..........................

 

...................................like a fine wine.

Interesting................

 

..............Us boomers are now outnumbered by our kids.  Back story is here.

Spinning actuarial science...................

 

.......................................I'll drink to that.

better memories...................

 

Let us build memories in our children,
lest they drag out joyless lives,
lest they allow treasures to be lost because
they have not been given the keys.
We live, not by things, but by the meanings
of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords
from generation to generation.

-as culled from here

Gotta love........................

 

.........................................The Bee:

Aging.........................

 

................................like a fine wine:

The main culprit here is something called “genomic instability.” This is science’s polite way of saying that as we age, our cells go on a bender. They’re mutating left and right, spiraling out of control. Your cells go from reliable employees to either early retirees or anarchists, and the repair crew is phoning it in.

The best possible way to.............................

 

......................................argue about politics.

In praise (sort of) of........................

 

...............................us baby boomers:

It’s also true that Father Time is undefeated.

To distracted to answer the question.......

 

Civil War historian Shelby Foote, when asked to cite anything about the American Civil War he did not understand, often replied, “I still don’t know how they did it… How does a starving man march 20 miles, then go into a 3-hour battle?”

That’s a great question. Each generation, in raising the next, has to wonder how much toughness to pass along and whether the deprivation of hardship is doing harm.

-Michael Wade, from this substack

anti-fragileness as a goal.............

 

The goal for both your body and finances is to make them anti-fragile systems. Growing stronger through controlled stress to avoid collapse under reckless intensity is the North Star for amplifying wealth and optimal health.

-Tony Isola, from here

On aging like a fine wine...............

 

..................without becoming a burden.

Aging like a fine wine...........

 

     From the inside, old age is not so simple.  We may be more concerned about time as death approaches, but older folks are also more capable of appreciating that time.  The fewer moments we have to look forward to in life, the more valuable they become.  Past grievances and preoccupations often dissipate, and what's left is what we have before us.  The beauty of a snowy day, the pride we have in our children or in the work we've done, the relationships we cherish.  Despite the perception that old people are grumpy and cantankerous, research has shown that human beings are never so happy as in the late years of their lives.  We get better at maximizing highs and minimizing lows.  We feel less hassled by the little things that go wrong, and we are better at knowing when something is important and when it's not.  The value of positive experiences far outweighs the cost of negative experiences, and we prioritize things that bring us joy.  In short, we're emotionally wiser, and that wisdom helps us thrive.

-Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, The Good Life: Lessons From the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

reinvention.........................

 

The older I get, the more I realize nothing changes if nothing changes. The new life you want doesn’t magically appear. It’s built through action. New habits. New mindsets. New standards. New boundaries. Reinvention has a cost of entry. Pay it with pride.

-Sahil Bloom

Just back............................

 

..............from spending a week in South Carolina with friends of 55 years.  Highly recommended.

About anger.................

 

I don't believe in anger anymore.  Anger was good when I was young and full of testosterone, but now I like the Buddhist saying, "Anger is a hot coal you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at somebody."  I don't want to be angry, and I don't want to be around angry people.  I just cut them out of my life.  I'm not judging them.  I went through a lot of anger too. They have to work through it on their own.  Go be angry at someone else, somewhere else.

-Eric Jorgenson, channeling Naval Ravikant

Let us play...............

 

Let us ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them. In Utopia, said Thoreau, each would build his own home; and then song would come back to the heart of man, as it comes to the bird when it builds its nest. If we cannot build our homes, we can at least walk and throw and run; and we should never be so old as merely to watch games instead of playing them. Let us play is as good as Let us pray, and the results are more assured.

-Will Durant, as quoted here

Hey.....what?....wait a minute...........

 

I’ve seen all sorts of estimates for the coming wealth transfer from baby boomers to the next generation.  $16 trillion. $84 trillion. $124 trillion. . . .

Here’s the one part of this conversation we’re not really touching on — The Great Wealth Transfer requires that the baby boomer generation dies off. Death and taxes, right?

-Ben Carlson, from here

Context matters...........................

 

When you’re younger, you are swept up in the drama of your own life: leaving home, making a career, creating a family. As you age, unless you are either a world-historical genius or self-deluded, you begin to realize that whatever you accomplished doesn’t actually amount to all that much. The meaning of your life has more to do with your place in a direct chain—proceeding, obviously, from you down to your children and grandchildren, but also, less obviously, from you upward through generations of people you may not have known or even have heard of. They’re your context. You need to know about them in order to understand your own life fully.

-Nicholas Lemann, as culled from this story

True this.................................

 

(Well, almost true.  Ours is a sixty-year-old refrigerator.}

more fun here 

Aging like a fine wine....................

 

It turns out that one key to aging is learning to live in a future you didn't see coming.

-Marty Goldensohn, from here