How to Stay Youthful & Full of Life
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Listen to episode 1090 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Stay Young & Full of Life? Edited and adapted from “The Road to Seventy Years Young or The Unhabitual Way” by Emily Bishop.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The man or woman, who daily lives up to the habit of the unhabitual, will never become dull, uninteresting, prejudiced — nor as old, in any sense, as they otherwise might be. There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged, and the tendency to renovate, its ideas.
To wage warfare against this tendency to keep not only our ideas unchanged, but our physical actions, our associations, and to ally ourselves enthusiastically with the new and unexpected, is to take the safest road across the intervening years from Now to Then — to the future kingdom of "Seventy Years Young."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from The Road to 70 Years Young or the Unhabitual Way by Emily |
| 0:24.7 | Bishop, published in 1916. |
| 0:30.6 | The man or woman who daily lives up to the habit of the unhabitual will never become dull, |
| 0:40.3 | uninteresting, prejudiced, nor as old in any sense as they otherwise might be. |
| 0:49.3 | There is an everlasting struggle in every mind between the tendency to keep unchanged and |
| 0:57.8 | the tendency to renovate its ideas. |
| 1:02.7 | To wage warfare against this tendency to keep not only our ideas unchanged, but our physical |
| 1:09.9 | actions, our associations, and to ally ourselves |
| 1:14.8 | enthusiastically with the new and unexpected, is to take the safest road across |
| 1:21.7 | the intervening years from now to then, to the future kingdom of 70 years young. |
| 1:31.8 | At his 70th birthday party, Mark Twain explained how he had, quote, |
| 1:37.3 | beaten the doctor and the hangman for 70 years. |
| 1:41.5 | He said, Since 40, I have been regular about going to bed and getting up. That is one of the main things. |
| 1:50.6 | I have made it a rule to go to bed when there was no one left to sit up with, and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. |
| 1:59.4 | That has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. |
| 2:07.2 | Unswerving regularity of irregularity are only other words for the habit of the unhabitual. |
| 2:15.8 | What a swing of the pendulum is Mark Twain's doctrine from that of poor Richard's |
| 2:20.6 | Almanac. |
| 2:21.8 | Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, said Benjamin Franklin. |
| 2:29.5 | However, farmers are early to bed and early to rise people, yet they are not as a class, |
| 2:38.4 | wealthy, especially healthy, or long-lived, nor are they noted for their exceptional wisdom. |
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