"The Longevity Project": How To Live Longer

nytimes.com:

After reading “The Longevity Project,” I took an unscientific survey of friends and relatives asking them what personality characteristic they thought was most associated with long life. Several said “optimism,” followed by “equanimity,” “happiness,” “a good marriage,” “the ability to handle stress.” One offered, jokingly, “good table manners.”

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Comments

[ramal]

02:33 AM on 04/20/2011

If you can get it (I think it is long out of print.) read Quentin Crisp's "Manners From Heaven." He lived to be ninety-three.

[CountLeo]

11:23 PM on 04/19/2011

If good manners make for a long life I'm betting that a very small percentage of HP posters will live beyond their thirties...

[NoSillyName]

10:54 AM on 04/22/2011

And the rest of us are already beyond that decade. Some of us well beyond.