{"id":8853,"date":"2017-11-14T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T18:47:03","slug":"ted-talk-the-secret-to-living-longer-may-be-your-social-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/11\/14\/ted-talk-the-secret-to-living-longer-may-be-your-social-life\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Talk: The secret to living longer may be your social life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a self avowed loner, this research showing personal connections are important to a long life bothers me. I had hoped that\u00c2\u00a0Cacioppo&#8217;s writing in\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2753527-loneliness\">Loneliness<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that we each have differing levels of engagement that are necessary would apply. Having a lower threshold might protect against\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/wd77bq\/why-men-lose-friends-in-their-20s\">depression, anxiety, and suicide<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that plague men.<\/p>\n<p>Pinker seems to be saying that having someone who will check up on older people is what prolongs their lives into becoming centenarians.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptIecdCZ3dg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If the above does not work, then try\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ptIecdCZ3dg\">TED Talk: The secret to living longer may be your social life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a self avowed loner, this research showing personal connections are important to a long life bothers me. I had hoped that\u00c2\u00a0Cacioppo&#8217;s writing in\u00c2\u00a0Loneliness\u00c2\u00a0that we each have differing levels of engagement that are necessary would apply. Having a lower threshold might protect against\u00c2\u00a0depression, anxiety, and suicide\u00c2\u00a0that plague men. Pinker seems to be saying that having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[985],"tags":[3142,760,2985,2697,3340,3341,1856],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-philosophy","tag-anxiety","tag-depression","tag-introversion","tag-loneliness","tag-old-age","tag-susan-pinker","tag-ted-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2iN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}