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The Lucky Years – How to Thrive in The Brave New World of Health by Doctor David Agus, author of the brilliant, life changing A Short Guide to A Long Life, which could help make you do this… http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world - 10 out of 10
The Lucky
Years – How to Thrive in The Brave New World of Health by Doctor David Agus,
author of the brilliant, life changing A Short Guide to A Long Life, which
could help make you do this…
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world
10 out of
10
I have been
so thrilled, elated, optimistic after reading A Short Guide to A Long Life that
I have posted five (5) notes on my blog, impressed with the advice that we
could use and the positive feelings generated by that lifesaving, phenomenal
book that we should all read, to help us reach healthy, Long Lives – for instance,
David Agus, in his excellent A short Guide to A Long Life and other experts
recommend a dog, which will:
‘Condition his master and force him to respect
a schedule, with fixed hours, which are also good for our well being
Because a dog needs exercise it will make the
owner walk or even jog with his pet and therefore help his health’
Doctor
David Agus is one of the best experts and therefore, we have access through
those marvelous books to the best advice, analysis we could get, indeed, the
late, regretted Steve Jobs had a special, extraordinary team of doctors to advise
him, and David Agus was one of them…alas, this happened at a very late stage,
when it was too late to stop the cancer from advancing, and before that, the
extraordinary entrepreneur had used unorthodox, and also inefficient means to
treat his disease, with palliatives, homeopathy, which do not work and it seems
to be a known, accepted fact that had he been using established, scientific
means to combat the illness, the outcomes would have been better…
It is true
that most people would be tempted to dismiss this book, not read it in their
young years, unless they have some condition, a disease that would prompt them
to be interested in their health and challenges to it, and leave it for the
mature period, only then, it could also be pushed aside, like I did for quite
some time, because it feels depressing to read about cancers and new treatments
for them… http://realini.blogspot.com/2016/08/note-on-short-guide-to-long-life-by-dr.html
Indeed,
where it not for a quirk in the filing, I would have avoided this read and very
likely postpone it forever, but it was placed in a to read context, vey prominent,
so there we are, talking about it…as it is, the passages about terminal illness
have me looking for the exit and I just close my ears for the duration – it is
an audiobook – and look for the more positive passages, some of which can be
somewhat amusing, like the reference to the phenomena which has overweight,
even obese humans dismiss their condition, studies show that many of those with
a weight problem say they do not have it…
When
surrounded by people that are overweight, one with the same issues will see one
self as ‘normal’ – there are psychology studies that have shown that eating
with someone else increases the amount we consume, and the bigger the number of
folks at the table, the more we add to our plate, up to near twice the usual
quantity when we eat with eight or ten, I think it was, and I wonder if this is
not connected with the Social Proof Rule from the classic Influence by
marvelous Robert Cialdini http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/10/influence-science-and-practice-graphic.html - which has devastating effects
This would
go back to The Wobegon Days and the Effect that has generated, the tendency
that we have to value our skills as better than the average, we see ourselves
as better than average drivers, when this is clearly impossible, we could not
have a majority better than the norm, which if we use logic, if a distorted
one, would change the average http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/08/lake-wobegon-days-nine-out-of-10.html
We learn a
lot about long, healthy life from another wondrous work, Ikigai http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/ikigai-byhector-garcia-and-francesc.html the Japanese secret which can be
summarized (though it is better to read the book) with – eat only to 80% at the
table, have a circle of friends, take it slowly, exercise, smile, and then you
could also try a diet which has helped the people of Okinawa reach one hundred
in record numbers, which includes little meat, a special potato, and a variety
of crudité
Another
excellent read would be Home Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow by the
magnificent Yuval Harari http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/homo-deus-brief-history-of-tomorrow-by.html in which the author argues that new
discoveries will help humans become gods – hence the title – and live to 200
and more, albeit there will be differences in what access the rich versus the
poor will have at this and other technologies, in the future it will be
possible to become much more ‘intelligent’ thanks to implants and other
gadgets.
Positive
Psychology is one element that we can use now to benefit from The Lucky Years,
for studies in this domain have shown that people who are positive live longer,
healthier and more successful lives than the negative ones, there is a whole
library that you can consult on the subject, especially Martin Seligman, Sonja
Lyubomirsky, Tal Ben-Shahar, Ed Diener, Stefan Klein, Shawn Achor http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-happiness-advantage-by-shawn-achor.html
The
question at this time could be how to convince others of the merits of
positivity – never mind oneself, for we forget, I for instance know about the
vital role that being positive plays, but cannot stop whining and feeling down
when I see all those public lights on in the Mogosoaia Park and Cultural Centre
while the public is not allowed, or neighbors parking over the bushes that I
have planted, carrying many of them in my car, not to mention the latest
cataclysmic news that a rocket has landed into Poland (in fact, a missile) and
even if it was just a mistake, or maybe the result of a clash midair between an
Ukrainian defense projectile and an incoming Russian one, still, it reminds us
of how close we can get to World War III and thus the annihilation of humanity
– with this background, it is difficult to persuade others, Socrates say, of
the benefits of forgetting about the reckless drivers, the conspiracy theories
he embraces, which make him mad, because he sees the price of gas, maybe even
the war in Ukraine as the result of machinations, the interference of hidden
actors…
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html