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Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old

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A New York Times Bestseller!

An unusual look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being, Happiness Is a Choice You Make weaves together the stories and wisdom of six New Yorkers who number a number of the “oldest old”― those eighty-five and up.

In 2015, when the award-winning journalist John Leland set out on behalf of The New York Times to meet members of The usa’s fastest-growing age group, he anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Regardless of disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each and every lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended latest notions of aging, revealing the late stages of life as impulsively wealthy and the elderly as incomparably wise.

Happiness Is a Choice You Make is a long-lasting selection of lessons that emphasizes, above all, the unusual influence we wield over the quality of our lives. With humility, heart, and wit, Leland has crafted a sophisticated and necessary reflection on how to “live better”―informed by those who have mastered the art.

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