Lifespan: Summary, Key Ideas & Insights
What if the goal of living longer is not simply to add years, but to understand why aging happens and what can…
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What if the goal of living longer is not simply to add years, but to understand why aging happens and what can…
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We are often told that exercise is the obvious answer to modern health problems. But Daniel Lieberman’s Exercised asks a more interesting…
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Most people say they want to be happy, yet we often organize life around goals that postpone happiness into an imaginary future:…
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Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction asks whether humanity is living through another mass extinction—and what it means for one species to become…
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Building a company is often described as a sequence of victories: raise money, hire talent, launch the product and scale. Ben Horowitz’s…
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Imagine waking up alone on another planet, knowing everyone you trusted believes you are dead. There is no rescue vehicle, communication is…
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Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner begins with friendship, childhood and a single moment that changes two boys’ lives. But the novel gradually…
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In a world where almost everything has disappeared, what would make a human being worth saving? Cormac McCarthy’s The Road follows a…
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Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal examines what happens when medicine confronts the limits of cure. As people age or develop serious, life-limiting illness,…
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Why do some populations contain unusually high numbers of people who remain active and independent into old age? Dan Buettner’s The Blue…
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