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You Are Going to Live Too Long
You do not need to know what you are going to do forever in your 20s… and other life mistakes you will make because you will live too long
No one is prepared for how long you will live today compared to past generations. By 2030, life expectancy will surpass ninety years old according to a BBC report by James Gallagher, and how do you prepare people under thirty years old today for the possibility of living over forty years longer than people just a hundred years ago?
Life planning was simpler when you died young. In the early 1900s, the life expectancy in America was only fifty-eight years old. You retired when you were in your early fifties, died about six years later, often stayed married your entire life to the same person, and usually stayed in the same career for all the years you worked.
Should you really expect to find a life partner in your twenties that will be with you for another sixty years? Can you be expected to finish college then commit to one career for fifty years or more?
One hundred years later we have a life expectancy of seventy-nine years as of 2020, which makes most of…
