Design the Long Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Love, Purpose, Well-Being, and Friendship by Ayse Birsel

Greater longevity offers the opportunity to give consideration of how to spend the additional years of one’s life. While there are many approaches, one way is taking a design approach. This is the approach by the author who designed everything from potato peelers to office systems. She now sets forth a way to design life after 50.

She raises the question of What’s Great about a Long Life? She responds with Love, Purpose, Well-Being, and Friendship.

Birsel makes a number of distinctions for the 50+ years. There is a shift from

• What life expects of you to what you expect of life.

• A reductionist point of view to an expansionist point of view.

• Ready-made purpose to self-made purpose.