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Perhaps people who have a good attitude about old age are more likely to have had the experience of healthy parents and grandparents and thus are more likely to have genes that lead to a long healthspan.
I've seen what is likely coming, and the only changes which matter are to lifestyle - not attitude.
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Work: a purpose for being, and making you feel socially useful.
Where do you get that these days? It's increasingly hard to find it on the job market.
I wish more people would continue living youthfully into adulthood, and continue to do so for as long as possible, with the limits of old age being an emergent phenomenon forced onto them rather than something they unwittingly eagerly pursued through laziness and boredom. If you ride a bicycle every day, barring some injury forcing a prolonged break, you'll continue to be able to deep into old age. Anything we practi…
I wish there were more free playgrounds that can also be used by adults, spread around like the ones for kids. I also like ropeways, climbing high, swings etc. Instead adults get boring repetive-movement fitness equipment.
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Positive feedback cycle?
It's still a divide, social attitudes can shape behavior and health just as much. Honestly, I don't know how to be positive about this. Some people experience events in life that are beyond their control, that shape their attitudes. Those attitudes may be judged by a 'healthy attitude' population as 'unhealthy attitudes'. This ostracizes a portion of the population and can lead to a negative feedback cycle for an ind…
I would say, rather, that peoples attitudes shape their responses to events in life that are beyond their control.
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It's still a divide, social attitudes can shape behavior and health just as much. Honestly, I don't know how to be positive about this. Some people experience events in life that are beyond their control, that shape their attitudes. Those attitudes may be judged by a 'healthy attitude' population as 'unhealthy attitudes'. This ostracizes a portion of the population and can lead to a negative feedback cycle for an ind…
> Some people experience events in life that are beyond their control, that shape their attitudes. I would say, rather, that peoples attitudes shape their responses to events in life that are beyond their control.
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I wish there were more free playgrounds that can also be used by adults, spread around like the ones for kids. I also like ropeways, climbing high, swings etc. Instead adults get boring repetive-movement fitness equipment.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but there is outdoor "gym" gear in plenty of places where I live, free to use for anyone. Including monkey bars and such. As for specifically fitness as an activity, there is plenty of types of exercise that favor body weight exercises and free weights over machines. Crossfit is obviously the big trendy one, but there are many other types out there.
The local indoor playground used to have an evening where they inflated the inflatable structures a bit more and only let adults in (so no crushed kids). You can power yourself out very fast like that, especially if you bring some friends. That's the feeling I want, not a gym.
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I wish there were more free playgrounds that can also be used by adults, spread around like the ones for kids. I also like ropeways, climbing high, swings etc. Instead adults get boring repetive-movement fitness equipment.
Join a bouldering gym.
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I wish there were more free playgrounds that can also be used by adults, spread around like the ones for kids. I also like ropeways, climbing high, swings etc. Instead adults get boring repetive-movement fitness equipment.
> I wish there were more free playgrounds that can also be used by adults, spread around like the ones for kids. I also like ropeways, climbing high, swings etc. It's not a major investment on your part. Buy a few ropes, a swing and make your own in your garden or a nearby forest. If you live in a location which prevents you from living a healthy life, perhaps you should think about moving.