This is an excerpt from a Bankrate.com interview with Stephen Pollan, author of “Die Broke” and also “Live Rich” among various other books.
You continue to hold with the one “Die Broke” tenet that puzzles some, which is, don’t retire.
Because leisure is lethal. My wife and I are both 78. Age is a matter of what’s between your ears. Most of age is created by attitude; I think attitude is a life-extender, exuberance is a life-extender. You know, you can talk yourself into death. Life is just so great that you should never make plans for anything else. The nicest thing about life, I’ve discovered, is to have somebody in your life that you would take a bullet for, and that’s what you have when you have kids. Then it’s all about love.
I’m all for having a purpose and goals throughout one’s life, but I’m convinced that jobs in my career path have done nothing but shorten my life span. Perhaps I need to work on my attitude???
