Wade Davis - Feeling Great at 65

Wade Davis shares insights and nuggets of wisdom about feeling great at 65 through historical definitions and personal anecdotes that will make you smile and contemplate your own life trajectory.
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Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic.Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of 22 books, including One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the NGS. Davis, one of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorers Club, is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees, as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the 2011 Explorers Medal, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration, the 2015 Centennial Medal of Harvard University, the 2017 Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award, the 2017 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration, and the 2018 Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.

[@alau2058]

I am 65 tomorrow. I enjoyed this talk. Right now, I am receiving Social Security and a modest pension, enough to cover my bills, cat food and craft beer. I am content.

[@granthurlburt4062]

Actually "One persistent myth about the German program is that it adopted age 65 as the standard retirement age because that was Bismarck's age. In fact, Germany initially set age 70 as the retirement age (and Bismarck himself was 74 at the time) and it was not until 27 years later (in 1916) that the age was lowered to 65."

[@granthurlburt4062]

He has written several books, particularly Into the Silence, that are some of the best I've read, due to his adventurousness, curiosity, and excellent research into knowledge (the literature).

[@leomiri1]

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[@markbrownner6565]

so we have the german bismarck to thank for the idea of retirement at 65...who would have guessed the origin of that policy and how cynically it was chosen and then adopted by our own social security system...and now we will live longer...so then how to enjoy that time..??

[@secretofsinging]

Very good point !!!!