I remember hearing about the Terman project -- where they studied 1,500 children born around 1910 and collected data on them during their lives. Two authors have recently written a book based on this data.
"Most people who live to an old age do so not because they have beaten cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or lung disease; rather, the long-lived have mostly avoided serious ailments altogether," according to Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin, in their recent book, "The Longevity Project."
"The best childhood personality predictor of longevity was conscientiousness--the qualities of a prudent, persistent, well organized person," according to the two professors (he at the University of California--Riverside, and she at La Sierra University). "Conscientiousness . . . also turned out to be the best personality predictor of long life when measured in adulthood."
The Key to a Long Life: Conscientious Habits - Yahoo! News
So, if you're particularly conscientious, you may want to factor living a few years longer into your FIRE calculations.
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"Most people who live to an old age do so not because they have beaten cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or lung disease; rather, the long-lived have mostly avoided serious ailments altogether," according to Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin, in their recent book, "The Longevity Project."
"The best childhood personality predictor of longevity was conscientiousness--the qualities of a prudent, persistent, well organized person," according to the two professors (he at the University of California--Riverside, and she at La Sierra University). "Conscientiousness . . . also turned out to be the best personality predictor of long life when measured in adulthood."
The Key to a Long Life: Conscientious Habits - Yahoo! News
So, if you're particularly conscientious, you may want to factor living a few years longer into your FIRE calculations.
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