By Dan Buettner — 2011
Somewhere in the remote Nicoyan peninsula of Costa Rica, a 101-year-old named Panchita is making you look bad. By the time you finish your morning blog rounds, she has already cleared brush, chopped wood and made tortillas from scratch.
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When I retired from clinical practice several years ago, I let go into the unknown. I felt tentative, uncertain, yet knowing intuitively that I needed to heed the call.
Research shows there is a ‘sweet spot’ and subjective wellbeing drops off after about five hours.
When they looked at the sample of 2,956 people who had begun participating in the study in 1992 and retired by 2010, the researchers found that the majority had retired around age 65. But a statistical analysis showed that when people retired at age 66 instead, their mortality rates dropped by 11%.