Review: Outlive; The Science and Art of Longevity
Ric Elias was one among 155 passengers on the US Airways flight that had an emergency landing on the Hudson River in January 2009. None of them would have survived but for the efforts of the pilot. Elias’s outlook on longevity changed that day as he realised that, like the courageous pilot, all that’s needed is for individuals to think of what lies ahead at any given moment. “I think people get old when they stop thinking about the future,” he later remarked. As long as individuals think about their dreams, their…