From the New York Times bestselling creator and coauthor of the Younger Next Year series comes Younger Forever: A SuperAger’s Guide to Life After 50.
Author’s Personal Thoughts
Writing my new book, YOUNGER FOREVER, A SuperAger's Guide to Life After 50 was a particular treat ... a ton of work, it turns out, but great fun. If I may wax sentimental for a moment, it is a particularly heart felt book for me. It’s perhaps my final effort (at 92) to persuade "my people" that life in the Third Act (from retirement to the day they go over the waterfall) can be far, far better than they have dreamed... maybe the best in the whole damn play. Like mine, by heaven. Or it can be Godawful ... the tar pit where the mastodons go to die. (Thus the average American spends 12 1/2 years coping with chronic diseases. Ugh!) And, surprisingly it is not a matter of genes and luck; it is a matter of *choice, *your *choice*.
But you have to know what's going on to make the right choice in the beginning and keep on making the right choices as life goes on ... that's what the book is all about: telling you what's going on (which you may not know as well as you think). Worth reading, it seems to me, because it matters a ton. You don't want the darned old tar pit, believe me. I see it a lot with my older friends and it is grim.
YOUNGER FOREVER is an easy read (it takes a ton of hard work to make an easy read), but the message is heavy ... important. And far, far too many people just don't get it. Surprisingly, I did get it some thirty years ago - and my life has been a joy ever since: skiing the (easier) black diamonds in Aspen, biking all over the place, writing books and having a hell of a time. And free from both pain (which is huge) and from any of those chronic diseases, including The Four Horsemen of old age and death: heart disease, cancer, diabetes and dementia. A "SuperAger" as I was surprised to learn. There is some work to becoming a SuperAger and you may not be interested, but it's pretty sweet, and you should at least know about it.
Just learning a little will inform and shape your life in a good way. And, hey, the book is funny in places; that can't hurt.
“Tightly written. Superb.”