Early Retirement Extreme

— a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, and applied capitalism

Does retiring early lead to a shorter lifespan?

Published in April 10th, 2013
Posted by in Early Retirement, Health, Work
17 Comments

Not according to this graph, which shows an almost inverse correlation between retirement age and lifespan, that is, the sooner you retire, the longer you will live. The graph shows linearity going into earlier years. It is interesting how long that relation holds. This somehow contrasts with this study which comes to the opposite conclusion. [...]

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Personality psychology and early retirement resistance

Published in April 10th, 2013
Posted by in Early Retirement, Health
50 Comments

Personality psychology is a very fascinating topic to me because I find it explains everything about humans. In particular, most disagreements come down to different personality types. People have different ways of making decisions, different ways of understanding, different ways of organizing and different ways of relating to other people and these ways can all [...]

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Food, health, and (long and short-term) costs

Published in March 29th, 2013
Posted by in Health
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I’m 37 now. This is the age where the cumulative effects of good and bad living are beginning to show. When I look at the people I went to school with, some of the “health nuts” still look like they’re in their twenties. Conversely, some in the “beer & steak”-crowd look like they’re in their [...]

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