'Turns out the two most dangerous years of your life are literally the year you were born and the year you retire,' author Neil Pasricha tells hereandnow.
. … Turns out that they don't have a word for retirement. I mean, they also live by the ocean and they eat a lot of seafood and they eat in small plates. But I mean, literally, they have no word in their language that describes this concept of stopping work completely. And in exchange, they have one of the longest lifespans in the world.
The second one is structure. There is something that creates happiness when you have a reason to get out of bed in the morning. The Okinawans — who I mentioned earlier, who have no word for retirement — they actually have a word for this. They call it 'ikigai,' which translates as the reason you get out of bed in the morning. I call it structure but basically, you'll have a 100-year-old fisherman who's like, 'my ikigai is to provide fish for my family.
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