{"id":3428,"date":"2018-11-04T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cathybiase.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2018-11-04T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:00:29","slug":"this-week-on-the-health-hub-happiness-is-a-choice-with-john-leland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathybiase.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/04\/this-week-on-the-health-hub-happiness-is-a-choice-with-john-leland\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week on The Health Hub…Happiness is a Choice with John Leland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/span>What’s the secret to living a fuller, more content life? For John Leland, an award-winning New York Times reporter and author of the New York Times bestseller “Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year among the Oldest Old,” the answer came from an unexpected place: from the lives of six people age 85 and up. He expected them to educate him in the hardships of old age. Instead, they taught him lessons of resilience, gratitude, purpose and perspective that apply to people of any age. All had lost something \u2013 spouses, mobility, their keen eyesight or hearing. But none had lost everything. And they defined their lives by the things they could still do, not by what they had lost. Sociologists call this the \u201cparadox of aging\u201d: as much as our culture obsesses over youth, older people are more content with their lives than young adults. They\u2019re less stressed, less afraid of death, better able to manage whatever difficulties come their way \u2013 even when their lives are very, very hard. The good news about old age is that there is good news. And the better news is that we can all learn from our elders\u2019 wisdom and experience. Whatever your age, it\u2019s not too late to learn to think like an old person.<\/p>\n

John Leland is a reporter at the New York Times, where he wrote a year-long series following six people age 85 and up, which became the basis for his new book, \u201cHappiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year among the Oldest Old,\u201d a New York Times bestseller. Before joining the Times in 2000, he was a senior editor at Newsweek and editor-in-chief of Details magazine.<\/p>\n

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