Effort Drives Happiness and Longevity

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The key to happiness and longevity lies in making effort, even if it seems easier to choose comfort and ease. Having six hours of face-to-face conversation daily can significantly impact well-being. Building relationships, going out to meet friends, or walking instead of driving require effort, but they contribute to happiness and longer life. Choosing convenience over effort rarely results in valuable lessons, improved health, or increased happiness. Effort is essential for living a happier, healthier life, but it is less demanding than anticipated.

Most of us would count ourselves lucky to live to age 80. And yet, there are places on Earth where people regularly live to 100, suffer virtually no chronic disease, and live life with a sense of purpose.

These "Blue Zones" are the focus of Dan Buettner's work. He's a National Geographic explorer, an author, and a documentarian. He spent years traveling and studying the Blue Zones to understand why these 5 places on Earth produce some of the happiest, and longest-lived, people in the world.

Dan and I discuss why happiness is the key to longevity, creating Blue Zones in our own lives, and how a longer life can begin with simply rearranging your kitchen.

This...is A Bit of Optimism.

For more on Dan Buettner and his work, check out:

his Netflix documentary Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones

or bluezones.com

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