Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
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like a smart woman.
I mean, climbing Everest is more dangerous than base jumping.
And I thought base jumping was the schmucky move of all time.
But there are lots of other things we do that are schmucky, you know, smoking, obviously, and vaping, alcohol, certainly over one drink a day is, is a schmuck move.
And there are other things, you know, and I could be very.
And the last thing is, you got to stay mentally engaged.
You got to be mentally on it.
Be curious about the world.
And as I think you pointed out, you got to have purpose.
It's not just, I mean, part of what bothered me about a lot of these wellness books is the sort of narcissism of them.
You know, it's about me living a long time.
If you want to both be healthy and live a long and happy life, you know, it's about purpose and engaging with other people and engaging your mind.
And so you got to balance the physical stuff with these more social, mental things.
So that's what drove me to write the book.
It's a long answer.
I think you're pointing to, as usual, Mark, you summarize it well.
They have all these activities that are good for wellness built into the fabric of their daily life.
They don't think about, I got to do wellness.
I got to do exercise.
It's built into the lifestyle that they have.