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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Half of 5-year-olds in America today can expect to live to age 100. So how can we age well and live with purpose well into retirement?
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0:00.0 | In 2016, President Barack Obama hosted a meeting at the White House. |
0:06.0 | Not an intelligence briefing, not a diplomatic mission, but a dance party. |
0:22.0 | What's the secret to still dancing at 106 Obama asked? |
0:27.0 | And he asked it of his dance partner, Virginia McLaren, aged 106, and roughly half his |
0:34.8 | tall as either of the Obama's. |
0:41.0 | McLaren was born in the Jim Crow South in 1909. |
0:46.0 | She told Obama that meeting the president and first lady was a dream come true, and she |
0:51.0 | was even more thrilled that her visit had coincided with Black History Month. |
0:58.0 | I will never live to get a good life. |
1:00.0 | Well, you are the leader. |
1:01.0 | You are the leader. |
1:02.0 | And I tap you. |
1:03.0 | You are a liar. |
1:04.0 | So happy. |
1:05.0 | This is on point, I'm Megna Chacrabardi. |
1:08.0 | Virginia McLaren lived for another seven years. |
1:12.0 | She died just last year at the age of 113. |
1:17.0 | Imagine all that she lived through and witnessed the change she saw. |
1:23.0 | McLaren was born before talking movies. |
1:27.0 | She lived 113 years and died in a world utterly unrecognizable from the one into which she was born. |
1:34.0 | What an exceptional life. |
1:37.0 | But maybe not so exceptional for much longer. |
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