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🗓️ 28 March 2023
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After more than six years of research, planning, and writing, Peter’s book, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, is officially available as of March 28th. In this episode, Peter sits down with co-author Bill Gifford to provide a behind-the-scenes look into the writing process, including the motivation for making it happen, how the book evolved over the course of the writing process, and why certain topics were chosen (and omitted). Additionally, they discuss how the book is structured and touch on a few of the book’s main themes to give potential readers an idea of what they can expect.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Drive Podcast. |
0:13.0 | I'm your host, Peter Atia. |
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0:46.3 | Now, without further delay, here's today's episode. |
0:51.1 | Welcome to a special episode of the Drive. |
0:54.0 | As many of you may know by now after, more than six years of planning and background |
0:58.6 | research writing, editing, rewriting, rewriting, rewriting, my first book Outlive, The Science |
1:05.2 | and Art of longevity is out on March 28th. |
1:08.6 | And so for today's episode of the Drive, I'm joined by my co-author, Bill Gifford, to answer |
1:13.6 | a lot of questions that you guys have posed over the past few months on the book. |
1:18.4 | This conversation is really a discussion around the book and the behind the scenes look |
1:24.0 | at the past six years that it took us to write this book leading to where we are today. |
1:29.8 | It includes a lot of details around process that I haven't really spoken about elsewhere |
1:34.2 | and also about, you're really frankly why it took so long. |
1:38.1 | My hope is that for those of you that end up buying the book and reading it, this discussion |
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