Only 3 in 10,000 people live to 100. U.S. male life expectancy is 74, making the chronological midpoint 37. But time feels faster as you age, so subjectively you're already past the midpoint of your life by age 21.
3 out of 10,000 people live to 100. Everyone has this assumption in their mind that they're like, yeah, I'm at 50, so I'm going to make it to 100. Yeah, well, you've got a 3 in 10,000 shot at doing that. Very unlikely. More realistically, you'll die at the median, which is 74 for men in the US, which means that at 37, you're actually at the halfway point just in years. But if you adjust for the increase in speed of time, so the same reason that your kid at 5 years old thinks that something takes forever when you say it's going to happen next year, and when you're 40, something that happens next year feels like you blink your eyes it's there is that when you're 5, 1 year is 20% of your life. When you're 40, 1 year is 2.5% of your life. And so it very much in a row is 9 times faster than it is for your 5-year-old. And so if you adjust for that time speed, your midpoint isn't 37, it's closer to 21.
