Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel

He interacted.

He asked about, you know, that gives him purpose to bring joy to these kids every day, to make going to school a wonderful activity instead of something that they might dread or were fearful of.

And I think the doing of something outside of yourself is really, really important.

And so you're 100% right.

One of the things I write about extensively in the book is retirement and the dangers around retirement.

We don't do retirement well in this country.

We...

When you're planning for retirement, first of all, you have to plan for it.

You don't just say, oh, 65 and that's good.

And we're doing some research around the activities people engage in around retirement that are important for longevity and wellness.

And it's really important to plan for it and to make sure you just don't stop things cold turkey.

because work has a schedule, it has social interaction, it has things that are mentally challenging for you.

No matter what you're doing,

And once you lose all those things and you sort of relax and, you know, as I sort of tongue in cheek joke, you know, drinking pina coladas on the beach, doing that long term is not good for you.

It might be restful for, you know, a few weeks of recuperation.

But as a long term plan, and if you got to 65, you're going to live a good 17, 18 more years.

You really have to think about, well, what else am I going to do?

Volunteer at the library, volunteer at the zoo or an animal shelter or what have you, being the docent at the museum.

uh, you know, or grow vegetables and enter, you know, contests.

Um, it's really important to do that stuff and to, um, not just lose, uh, that purpose.