- Envision longer lives, envision old age and use your imagination: The goal is to stay out of nursing homes, she said;
- Design your life: Forget about willpower. Design things so your choices are healthy choices. For example, she said you should plan and prepare what you are going to have for dinner instead of getting something on the fly, which most likely will be unhealthy;
- Diversify: When we had 50 years of life expectancy, we didn’t have too much to diversify, she said. Take, for example, a three- to four-day workweek that allows us to distribute our time and spend more with friends and family.
- Invest in yourself: People are going to find ways to go back to school and take micro-courses. She suggests that we also invest in family, our children and other peoples’ children.
“Next time you drive by a school ground,” she said, “just squint an eye about, and what you will see are the first centenarians of the century. They are here.”