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Dan Buettner
American
Explorer
Born:
1960
Diet
Live
People
Work
World
You
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Dan Buettner
You
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Healthy
Habits
Surround
Friends
Behaviors
Influence
Your
Choose
Who
A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
Dan Buettner
Life
Good
Long
Accident
Healthy
Habits
Genes
Also
Begins
Depends
Good Habits
I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
Dan Buettner
Work
Day
Every Day
Water
Live
Every
Neighborhood
Neighbors
Bump
Them
Bike
Connected
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner
Life
Love
Money
Worth
Values
Meaning Of Life
Additional
Say
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Exactly
Exactly What
Stuff
Know
Years
Lot
Meaning
Meaning Of
Right
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
Dan Buettner
Reality
People
About
Only
Brutal
Accelerator
Discover
Exists
Brake
Whether
Aging
Pedal
People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
Dan Buettner
People
Live
Physical
Physical Activity
Environments
Making
Where
Regularly
Who
Activity
Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
Dan Buettner
Way
Only
Proven
Off
Walking
Decline
Works
Cognitive
The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
Dan Buettner
People
Nothing
Eat
Wrapper
Only
Celebration
Diet
Meat
Plastic
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
Dan Buettner
You
Reality
Weather
Think
Cold
Minneapolis
Well
Course
Oh
Creatures
Humans
Adapt
Adaptable
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
Dan Buettner
Time
Learning
Experience
Language
Will
Pay
Those
Dividends
New
Come
Instrument
Sort
Go
Years
Up
Decades
Play
Actually
Things
Luster
I have always followed exactly what interests me and never really worried about the money. And when you think about it, to be able to travel the world... on an expense account and do exactly what interests you, it just doesn't get much better than that.
Dan Buettner
Me
You
Travel
World
Money
Better
Think
Worried
Exactly
Exactly What
Able
Followed
About
Never
Always
Account
Than
Get
Expense
Just
Much
Really
Interests
Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
Dan Buettner
Food
Yourself
Eat
Put
Then
Away
Serve
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
Dan Buettner
Together
Welcome
Culture
People
Live
Think
Related
Ease
Relentlessly
Also
Comfort
Always
Disease
Fleeing
Should
Hardship
Brings
One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
Dan Buettner
Big
Advantage
Learned
Big Things
Regular
Activity
Things
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
Dan Buettner
Live
Secret
Physical
See
More
Environment
Longevity
Exercise
Person
Diet
Which
Mean
Social
Less
Even
Lives
Inconvenient
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