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Neil Pasricha: Cultivate Happiness & Live An Awesome Life

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Origins of Retirement

In 1889 in Germany Chancellor Otto von Bismarck decreed from the state that anybody 65 and older could make a claim to the state and get a little bit of money to bridge them from age 65 to death. In 1951 the Corning Corporation began an ad campaign together with insurance companies to bill retirement is something that you deserve for years of work. Dan butner: The two most dangerous years of your lives are the year you're born and the year you retire there's a reason that almost everybody I know probably including you definitely including me has a story of someone who retired  and then they lights out.

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