Living a long and happy life
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Aging well is about embracing each phase of life with purpose, resilience and wisdom.
When you're young, growing old feels so far away. And then it seems to hit you all at once. Although it comes with back aches and cracking knees, growing older doesn't have to be a scary thing. How do you make your later years meaningful? Whether you want to learn more about wealth and fulfillment, forming deeper relationships, eating to prevent diseases or redefining the aging experience, these books can guide and empower you.
Look out for these books at a bookstore near you!
You’ve been made to believe that money is the only type of wealth. In reality, your wealthy life may involve money, but in the end, it will be defined by everything else. After years of research, personal experimentation, and thousands of interviews across the globe, Sahil Bloom has created a groundbreaking blueprint to build your life around five types of wealth: Time, Social, Mental, Physical, and Financial. A life of true fulfillment engages all five types—working dynamically, in concert across the seasons of your journey. No matter where you are on your path, this book will help you act on your priorities, make better decisions, and design the life you've always dreamed of.
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We all want a good life. But do the simple, predictable pleasures we call happiness lead to complacency and regret? Does a life of purpose invite narrow or misplaced loyalties? Now, psychologist Shigehiro Oishi proposes a new way to live. Psychological richness is a concept that prioritizes curiosity, exploration and a variety of experiences. These can be as simple as taking a walk, or as complex as moving to a new country, causing a shift in perspective that helps us grow. Weaving his own story with original research from fields ranging from moral philosophy, literature, culture and psychology, Oishi proves that psychological richness is what deepens and enriches our existence.
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What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. In this book, Volf, Croasmun, and McAnnally-Linz chart out this question, providing readers with jumping-off points, road maps, and habits of reflection for figuring out where their lives hold meaning and where things need to change. Drawing from the major world religions and from impressively truthful and courageous secular figures, this book is a guide to life’s most pressing question: How are we to live?
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Whether we like it or not, lots of things change as we age: our joints start to creak, our muscles weaken, and we lose coordination. Our bodies simply don’t look or perform the same each decade of life, and our risks for various diseases and medical conditions also increase as the years do. But there’s a solution! In Eat Your Age, acclaimed doctor and bestselling author Ian K. Smith will teach you what to eat at every age to prevent life-threatening diseases. With specific lifestyle and diet advice including fitness tests for each decade of life, this book proves that it's never too late to start battling the aging process.
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Life is full of choices. Like the Hulk, we can smash or choose not to. We can practice flexibility like Mister Fantastic, trust our team like Rocket Racoon, problem-solve like Shuri, and develop awareness like Doctor Strange. Grounded in character and story events drawn from the comics, this inspirational collection pairs Marvel heroes with helpful real-life advice and mindfulness guidance in a light and accessible way. Each entry presents a character spotlight with a way of appreciating their example, a related practice that readers can put into action, and a playful illustration by acclaimed comics artist Jason Loo.
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We’ve been led to believe that if you work hard and achieve success, happiness will follow. So what do we do when it doesn’t? When this formula leaves us feeling lost, exhausted, and empty inside? For millennia, the way of dharma has transformed millions of lives around the world and provided a practical framework to integrate ambition, success, and happiness. Now, bringing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this book delivers breakthrough habits, actionable tools, and unforgettable stories. Rediscover your calling, follow your wildest dreams, and finally find the fulfillment you’ve been searching for all along.
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Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age? With lessons I've learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them, it looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. The power has been in the wrong place for too long—medical teams have not always heard the voices of older people or those who love them. But if we are given power to influence the lives of our future selves, how best shall we use it?
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Dr. Mark Hyman’s revolutionary book Young Forever revealed how to reverse the biological hallmarks of aging through easy and accessible dietary, lifestyle, and longevity strategies. In this companion cookbook, Dr. Hyman shares more than 100 satisfying recipes to help you eat your way to a longer life. Rooted in the latest science, the recipes in The Young Forever Cookbook feature good fats, quality proteins, nutrient-dense vegetables, leafy greens, and a variety of other ingredients proven to support longevity. You’ll find a range of meals and snacks designed to fight inflammation, boost your immune system, and promote healthy aging.
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There's really no one quite like Dr Gladys McGarey. She revolutionised holistic medicine. Now, aged 102 and still practising as a doctor, she shares her powerful secrets so you can live your own life with joy, vitality and purpose at any age—just as she has. In a voice that is both practical and inspiring, Dr Gladys shares life-changing stories of miraculous healing from her thousands of patients of all ages, as well as her own experiences as a mother of six, and her survival of both heartbreak and illness.
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In this ground-breaking and inspiring guide, a renowned Harvard psychologist demonstrates how turning everyday habits into rituals can improve our work, our relationships and our lives. Think of the quirky traditions that you keep up with your friends. Or the unusual ways that you and your family mark special occasions. These are rituals: practices that are imbued with symbolic meaning. And they have the power to turn black-and-white moments into technicolour. Rituals can help us to forge winning teams, heal families experiencing grief and encourage us rise to challenges, big or small. Now it’s time to create yours.
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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases. That's because ageing is not a disease—it is inevitable. But what if everything you think you know about ageing is wrong? What if ageing is a disease? And that disease is curable. In Lifespan, Dr. David Sinclair, one of the world’s foremost authorities on genetics and ageing, argues just that. Enabling people to live longer, healthier, and disease-free well into our hundreds, he reveals a bold new theory of ageing, one that pinpoints a root cause of ageing that lies in an ancient genetic survival circuit.
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According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—the place where passion, mission, vocation, and profession intersect—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy.
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