Welcome to Friday,
This week, I came across this simple advice on longevity from the scientific director of the National Institute on Aging, Luis Ferrucci. I thought it was special in how simple it is. Here’s what he said.
“Just walking outside,” makes an enormous difference, Ferrucci said.
“If I had a jewel to give to people who want to live long and well, I would tell them to get up early in the morning and go out,” Ferrucci said. “That is really the best gift that you can give yourself if you want to achieve longevity.”
Getting outside, breathing fresh air, and rambling through a neighborhood or along a wooded path remains one of the best choices you can make for your mind and body. So, let me encourage you to get outside and go for a walk this weekend.
After you get back, enjoy the best reads on learning and creativity from around the Internet:
Echoing the apparent creativity-starved state of film and music, new papers are much less likely to become as influential as older studies. Rather than the world running out of interesting problems to study, it seems we are collectively at a point where we don’t know how to study all of the interesting problems around us in novel ways.
Annie Murphy Paul outlines a novel potential shakeup in teaching reading. Perhaps the full-body movements of VR can be helpful in boosting kids’ reading comprehension. Acting out the story, or a response to it, seems to be beneficial to understanding it.
Dr. King’s bookshelf.
Why Learn? A lovely response to this key question. “And that’s when I decided I had a choice. I could spend my life learning or I could spend it being bored. If I chose learning I would get to think, do, see, go wherever I wanted…”
“Intuition isn’t as static as we think. With the right tools, it can improve over time.”
Currently reading: The Narnian by Alan Jacobs
Have a fantastic weekend.
Image: Pink Roses in a Vase. Redouté, Pierre Joseph. 1838.
