I was really inspired by that blog post I shared a couple of months ago about cancer survivors and what they’d learned about life. I also posted a survey done with older folks last year giving advice on what NOT to do.
Well, thankfully all of that hard-earned knowledge is coming out in book form. Many of the interviews can also be at legacyproject.human.cornell.edu. From the NYTimes:
Eventually, most of us learn valuable lessons about how to conduct a successful and satisfying life. But for far too many people, the learning comes too late to help them avoid painful mistakes and decades of wasted time and effort…
Enter an invaluable source of help, if anyone is willing to listen while there is still time to take corrective action. It is a new book called “30 Lessons for Living” (Hudson Street Press) that offers practical advice from more than 1,000 older Americans from different economic, educational and occupational strata who were interviewed as part of the ongoing Cornell Legacy Project.
Its author, Karl Pillemer, a professor of human development at the College of Human Ecology at Cornell and a gerontologist at the Weill Cornell Medical College, calls his subjects “the experts,” and their advice is based on what they did right and wrong in their long lives.
You can also read a summary of their advice in the article: Advice From Life’s Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regrets
What are your life lessons?
Related articles
- What Are Your Life Lessons? (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
- Finishing With No Regrets (3quarksdaily.com)
- Advice From Life’s Graying Edge on Finishing With No Regrets (nytimes.com)
- Top 10 Lessons for Living from the Wisest Americans (talesfromthelou.wordpress.com)
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