Words matter. These are the best Dan Buettner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that’s a good feeling.
Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That’s worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world’s longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don’t use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
You have to know why you get up every morning.
A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline – it works.
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn’t always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it’s also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you’re a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don’t have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, ‘Oh well, it’s cold there, lethally cold.’ But the reality is you adapt to weather… Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
One of the big things I’ve learned is that there’s an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language – those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
