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July 1, 2019 • 6 minutes
You want to have a better retirement, but how do you get there? If you don’t have the bandwidth to research the latest science behind happiness, personal finance, investment theory and health research, you can take a few minutes to watch these 10 TED Talks to help you feel inspired, be smarter and have a better retirement.
In his TED Talk, “3 Ways to Plan For the (Very) Long Term,” futurist Ari Wallach outlines how our society has succumbed to “short-termism,” where planning for the next six months seems like a feat. This failure to think in the long term leads to “sandbag fixes” that might work for now, but don’t really solve problems.
Planning your retirement is indeed a long term issue. Get started now before that long distant future is actually upon you.
Dan Gilbert, the author of “Stumbling on Happiness,” challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. In his TED Talk, “The Surprising Science of Happiness,” he explains how our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned.
Gilbert says that the freedom to make up your own mind or change your mind is the friend of natural happiness. Freedom is a huge benefit of retirement. He has also presented, “Why We Make Bad Decisions,” which can help with your retirement planning.
With a career as an accountant, Estelle Gibson’s Ted Talk, the True Cost of Financial Dependence, tells her personal story of the perils of being financially dependent on someone else. She makes the point about how incredibly important it is to 1) understand and 2) be in control of your own finances.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in 10 people age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s dementia.
In her TED talk, “What You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s”, Genova says the answer lies in getting enough sleep, taking care of our cardiovascular health, and improving our neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve. It’s not just doing crossword puzzles – which is simply accessing the information we already know. Instead, neuroplasticity involves learning something new, which creates new synapses in the brain.
Carl Honore, author of Bolder, believes that it is important to feel better about aging as our natural process.
In his Ted Talk, Honore dispels many stereotypes about the downsides of aging. He cites research which illustrates that more often than not, the best ideas at companies don’t come from the young, they come from those over 50.
Economist Shlomo Benartzi says that self-control isn’t a problem in the future, it’s a problem now. This is also the problem with saving for retirement. We always think we’ll save more later, but when later comes, we end up spending instead.
It’s Benartzi’s goal to use behavioral economics to understand the mistakes we make and turn challenges into solutions. Learn more in his TED Talk, “Saving for Tomorrow, Tomorrow.”
Accountant Robert A. Belle discusses how you can unlock valuable insights about what drives you to spend (and save) by analyzing what you spend money on, when and why.
Watch for tips on how to conduct an “emotional audit” of your spending.
Psychiatrist Rober Waldinger is the director of a 75-year Harvard study on adult development that has studied 724 men, half from Harvard and the other half from low-income neighborhoods of Boston. In his TED Talk, Waldinger discusses, “What Makes a Good Life? Lessons From the Longest Study on Happiness.” They’ve found that happiness is not predicated on fame or fortune, but on good relationships. Loneliness is toxic.
In his informative TED talk “Is Retirement Bad for Your Brain?” Ross Andel, Professor and Director School of Aging Studies at the University of South Florida, tells us that while some loss of brain activity (like memory) is normal, you can fall into “the retirement trap” where people are tempted not to invest their time into things that challenge them.
Retirement can and should be a time to shift your priorities away from what was important in mid-life and toward the next phase of life, but people fall into the retirement trap when they assume finishing work means giving up life goals.
Daniel Levitin’s TED talk “How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed” explores one simple and effective technique that will take the anxiety out of retirement planning.
According to behavioral scientists, we’re likely to ignore common sense if we don’t build routines into our thinking that make us pay attention to the obvious. We need to train ourselves to think ahead. (A good way to do that is to create a checklist or a detailed plan.)
Find inspiration in these Ted Talks and understand what action(s) you can take towards financial wellness.
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