Mona Sharma argues that chasing longevity without a clear personal reason is pointless. Her vision: hiking with grandchildren at 100, still strong. When you know your why, daily choices align with the future you actually want to become.
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And I wanted to point out, too, also having a strong why everyone's talking about longevity, right? I want to live longer, you know, but why? Why do you want to live longer? Right. The way that we're looking at aging right now, aging kind of sucks. We get to the last 10, 15 years of our life and, you know, we're put into nursing homes, we're given a chronic disease or put on prescription medication. Like, I don't want any of that. But my visualization is to think about, I want to live till I'm a hundred so that I can throw my grandkid on my back and hike Runyon Canyon and have that strength and that posture to have clarity of my mind so I can be fully present. So with a why that is so powerful for me, because I really want to meet my grandkids one day, and I can visualize this. I can visualize hiking and make it feel real. Now my actions throughout the day are going to be aligned with the version of myself that I am becoming.