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Th is means making better choices in the now–based on long-term
thinking–could help a person to live far and above the 100 mark.
Let’s take a case study to explain what I am getting at.
I am going to use my gran, Ivy Sutherland as an example. Ivy was born in
1915, which tells you that in 2008, when she very peacefully passed on,
she was 93. In the year she was born, life expectancy was just 54. 98 When
my gran was born, there is no way that her parents would have believed
that she was going to live past 90, as that would have been 66.7% more
than the life expectancy prediction.
It would be like saying that a child born today is going to live until they
are 143. People just would not be able to get their heads around it. Can
you imagine somebody telling my gran’s parents that she was going to live
past 90 when at that time life expectancy was 54? People would think
that they were crazy to make such a claim. Now let’s move on a little in
time. By the time Gran was 35 (in 1950) life expectancy for women had
risen to 71. 99
Be Careful About What People Tell You
Had Gran listened to and believed the life expectancy statistics of 1950
(when she was 35) she may, because of the power of belief, have passed
on around 1986 instead of in 2008, 22 years later. One reason why we
should not pay too much attention to the current life expectancy fi gures
is because if we set in our minds on a certain age that we believe we are
going to live to, we might pop our clogs prematurely–simply because we
believe that the end is near.
Let me give you some examples of how the power of belief can have
potentially negative eff ects.
Th e fi rst examples are taken from Dr Denis Waitley’s excellent Th e
Psychology of Winning. 100