Retirement and a New Phase

The books, in order

1. 1

   Personal Finance · 16 min

   Your Money or Your Life

   Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez

   The pay stub hides the real cost of an hour of work, and it only shows up once you add up the time and the spending that the job itself demands in order to exist.

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2. 2

   Personal Finance · 15 min

   Financial Freedom

   Grant Sabatier

   How much you save every month matters more to the final result than how much you earn: you can go far saving a little, and you can never get anywhere earning a lot.

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3. 3

   Personal Development · 13 min

   Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

   Héctor García and Francesc Miralles

   Ikigai doesn't have to be big: a vegetable garden, an instrument, or the family lunch can already give your day direction.

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4. 4

   Health · 17 min

   The Blue Zones

   Dan Buettner

   Having one day a week when work is off limits by a rule bigger than your own willpower, like the Saturday in Loma Linda, protects rest in a way that willpower alone rarely manages to guarantee.

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5. 5

   Health · 16 min

   The Longevity Diet

   Valter Longo

   An entire community with a naturally lower growth signal, and less cancer and diabetes over a lifetime, is the kind of human evidence that lab research alone could never provide.

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6. 6

   Health · 15 min

   Sharpen

   Sanjay Gupta

   The adult brain keeps reshaping itself after age sixty, and that changes what you can expect from a routine you start late.

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7. 7

   Health · 15 min

   Brain Maker

   David Perlmutter

   Antibiotics don't pick sides: when they kill the bad bacteria, they also wipe out part of the population of good bacteria living in your gut.

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8. 8

   Productivity and Focus · 14 min

   Four Thousand Weeks

   Oliver Burkeman

   According to the book, choosing one thing means giving up many others, and the discomfort of missing out on some of them is part of living well, not a sign that you made a mistake.

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9. 9

   Health · 18 min

   Outlive: The Art and Science of a Longer, Better Life

   Peter Attia

   Treating disease only when it shows up is like changing the tire after the blowout: the medicine that prevents the flat starts decades before the diagnosis.

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10. 10

    Health · 14 min

    The XX Brain: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

    Lisa Mosconi

    According to the book, Alzheimer's-related changes can begin decades before the first symptoms, making prevention in midlife especially important.

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