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The Breakthrough Studies of a Lifetime & Personality & Long Life; Who Stays Well?

Introduction & Chapter 1

I can already tell this book will be an interesting one filled with conversations about how modern medicine is not all that it’s cracked up to be simply because of the lack of emphasis on the individual. There are a … Continue reading

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Personality vs. Health

The Introduction and Chapter 1 outlined Dr. Lewis Terman’s 80-year study. Starting in 1921 and looking at around 1,500 people, Terman collected data that would later be used to analyze longevity in relation to health. The chapter focused on two … Continue reading

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Intro and Ch 1

I was surprised to learn that many common health recommendations are actually ill-advised or even wrong, and that many peoples’ beliefs about health and longevity come from biased sources. People who participated in the study did not live such long … Continue reading

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Introduction and Chapter 1

There are many main points from the introduction and chapter one. I think one of the biggest takeaways is that the researchers discovered that many present day health recommendations are in fact wrong or ill-advised. I think this is an … Continue reading

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Introduction and Chapter 1

The chapter starts out by mentioning that a lot of aspects of our health are totally random, however, there are aspects that have a correlation to life events/personal features. For example, being born with a birth defect is not something … Continue reading

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Introduction and Chapter 1

The main premise of the Terman experiment is “why do some people thrive into old age and why others die prematurely” (Friedman & Martin IX). Throughout his study, Terman found that “the people who lived the longest had certain habits … Continue reading

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Introduction and Chapter 1 Submission – Brittany Woo

In the introduction and Chapter 1 of the Longevity Project, it harps on the fact that long life is not dependent on the typical health factors society thinks of, but rather on individualized habits and patterns of living. Based on … Continue reading

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Introduction & Chapter One

In the introduction and chapter one, Friedman and Martin (2011) review the premise of their book: to identify the psychological and environmental characteristics that are associated with longer lives. Dr. Terman’s longitudinal study of 1500 participants showed detailed qualitative data … Continue reading

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Introduction and Chapter 1

Something I found interesting in the introduction to The Longevity Project was the question of Terman participant result generalizability. The writers of The Longevity Project acknowledge that the Terman participants lived in a different era from today and were somewhat … Continue reading

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Intro and Ch.1

What interested me the most during the beginning of the book was that the criteria used to describe a child’s personality back when the project started was still applicable today and easily fit our modern statistical models.  It was a … Continue reading

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