Dr. Karl Pillemer

How can I make this count?

And it does involve trying to consciously avoid negative emotions about your situation to look for what's working in my life rather than what isn't working in my life.

So they would argue again and again, we're a group of people if I could speak as one.

We're a group of people that a lot of crap is happening to.

I mean, if you're going to be an old person, unless you can choose to be happy in spite of your circumstances, you're not never going to be happy.

Every single old person would be miserable.

Because if you at 30 got the level of arthritis and your friends are dying off and all these things are happening, you would just hate it and be miserable.

They are obliged to find a way to get around this.

So that's why I think, again, this notion of 2,000 older people yelling at you, this one insight.

is one way to get yourself moving in that direction.

This is one of the insights that when I give talks on this that people want to hear the least.

So the one thing I, when I tell them elder wisdom about your health, I get this feeling of fingers and ears and I'm not listening.

But they had, I think, a profound insight that I wish people trying to do public health messaging would embrace.

And I've tried to argue that in different venues.

Young people, when they think about their health, and I imagine some of you out there have said this or know people who said it.

I like smoking.

I like eating junk food.

I like not exercising.

And I don't care how long I live.

I really don't.