Ben Greenfield

I don't know if they necessarily live longer, per se.

It's tough to say.

I don't know if there's really, really good data we could pull on for that.

go out on adventures and mini-retirements throughout their life, I think, on average, tend to have more vitality and vigor later into age.

But the idea of

hanging out with young people, working out, doing adventures that people wouldn't normally expect you to do, introducing novelty into your life, learning new things constantly and being a lifelong curious learner, never thinking because you've graduated high school or college that learning is over,

I don't know if they necessarily live longer per se.

It's tough to say.

I don't know if there's really, really good data we could pull on for that.

But the idea of

hanging out with young people, working out, doing adventures that people wouldn't normally expect you to do, introducing novelty into your life, learning new things constantly and being a lifelong curious learner, never thinking because you've graduated high school or college that learning is over,

Doing things that scare you every once in a while.

These are all things that I weave into my own life, right?

There's not a year that goes by still and I'm 43 years old that I'm not signed up for a bow hunting expedition or a spearfishing adventure or a Spartan race or a kettlebell competition.

Doing things that scare you every once in a while.

These are all things that I weave into my own life, right?

or learning how to cook 10 random new things or learning a different finger style pattern on the guitar like I was last night to prepare for an open mic night later this month.

There's not a year that goes by still, and I'm 43 years old, that I'm not signed up for a bow hunting expedition or a spearfishing adventure or a Spartan race or a kettlebell competition or learning how to cook 10 random new things.

Every day I ask myself, am I doing something that's introducing a novel stimuli

on a daily basis and on a yearly basis, is there at least one thing that I'm preparing to do that kind of scares the hell out of me, you know, in terms of either extrinsic social embarrassment or personal physical challenges or some type of mental mountain to climb.