Designing Your Retirement An Evidence-based Path to a Happy, Healthy, and Fulfilling Retirement
PDF format: Designing Your Retirement (v. 11/15/24, 40 mB)
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While we all want to have a happy, healthy, and fulfilling retirement, the Second Law of Thermodynamics states that “order” will not spontaneously emerge from “chaos.” Consequentially, it is unlikely that a fulfilling retirement will spontaneously emerge from the chaos of life without some planning and effort.
I have written extensively about my retirement process and I have distilled my knowledge into a step-by-step instructional video, essay, and PDF that will help people design a happy, healthy, and fulfilling retirement.
Video: Designing Your Retirement. Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 9/28/24. This 90 minute lecture was edited down to 64 minutes.
PDF: Designing Your Retirement instructional manual, see “PDF format” above. After you download the PDF, export it from your browser to your computer and open it with a PDF reader.
Essay: Designing Your Retirement: An Evidence-based Path to a Happy, Healthy, and Fulfilling Retirement
Essay (long version): Designing Your Retirement: An Evidence-based Path to a Happy, Healthy, and Fulfilling Retirement
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Upcoming Lectures
- February 1, 2025, 9:30-11:30 AM, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
Lectures Given
- November 16, 2024, 9:30-11:30 AM, MIT Club of Boston, Cambridge Public Library, Rossi Room
- October 17, 2024, 6-8 PM, The Robb Center, Andover, MA
- September 28, 2024, 9:30-11:30 AM Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
- September 7, 2024, 9:30-11:00 AM MIT Club of Boston, Cambridge Public Library, Rossi Room
- July 11, 2024, noon- 1 PM, Cambridge Senior Center, Cambridge Senior Center
- Jun 1, 2024, 1:30-3:00 PM MIT Club of Boston, Cambridge Public Library
- May 3, 2024, 4-5:30 PM Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
- Mar 22, 2024, 11-12 PM Somerville Council on Aging, 167 Holland St, Somerville, MA
- Nov 16, 2023, 11:30-12:30 PM, Lifelong Learning at Regis College, 235 Wellesley St, Weston, MA
Comments from attendees of previous Designing Your Retirement lectures.
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It is never too late to begin Designing Your Retirement.
Hayward Zwerling, M.D.
revised: 11/16/2024