The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
Andrew Scott / Lynda Gratton
According to statistics, life expectancy is increasing year by year, which gives us all good prospects to live up to 100 years and longer. But how many of us are already seriously thinking about our distant future? What will be our "most adult" age: what will we do with ourselves, how, where and on what will we live, how will we feel, with whom will we communicate? Do we want, having lost our competitive skills with age and exhausted our reserves of vital energy, to find ourselves in the face of a long old age with meager means of subsistence? Unlikely. Can this be avoided and live a long but happy life? The authors of the book, who have studied the topic of longevity for many years, say yes. They talk about different life strategies and offer options for long-term planning. Professor of Management Excellence Linda Gratton and Professor of Economics Andrew Scott give advice on how to successfully maintain mental and physical tone; how to manage the time that used to be allotted to work; where to get new impressions, when nothing, it would seem, can surprise; how to provide for yourself without becoming a burden; how not to allow yourself to be lazy; how not to lose heart and not to spoil the life of others with grumbling; how to maintain and expand the circle of communication. You will learn how individual people and different generations, as well as business, government institutions and society as a whole, react to the prospects of a 100-year life. The authors share information on how to initiate beneficial changes that make the lives of older people better, and stimulate those already underway.
