The Lost ARC / Unit 6 ARC 128 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Purpose and Mortality
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The idea
Patrick Hill and Nicholas Turiano found in twenty fourteen that adults with a stronger sense of purpose lived longer over a fourteen-year follow-up.
In practice
The benefit holding even after accounting for other measures of psychological and emotional well-being.
Where people slip
It did not depend on age, on how long people lived during the study, or on whether they had retired.
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