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What Do You Actually Want From Later Life?
Most of what we want in later life was planted there young. How to tell a real want from a borrowed one, and why choosing it is what freedom means.
How to Prepare for Old Age: You Can't. You Just Continue
Two industries have grown up around growing older. One sells you a plan for your money, the other sells you the appearance of it not happening.
How to Build a Life You Don't Want to Retire From in Your 50s and Beyond
David Attenborough turned 100 without ever using the word retirement. There has never been a day in his life he was working toward. Most of us have built our lives the other way round — organising everything around the day we will finally be allowed to live. What if that day is the wrong destination?