2152: This is How You Live to be 103 Years Old by Bradley Charbonneau of Pass The Sour Cream on Longevity & Creativity

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[00:00:15] Now onto the show. This is Optimal Relationships Daily, episode 2152. This is How You Live to be 103 Years Old by Bradley Charbonneau of PassTheSourCream.com. Hello everybody and welcome to another Sunday bonus episode of ORD, brought to you by me,

[00:00:35] Greg Audino. And this time around I'll be sharing audio from an old episode of Optimal Living Daily, the main show on our network which focuses on all sorts of personal development content. So with that, here is Justin with the post and his commentary as we optimize your life.

[00:00:53] This is How You Live to be 103 Years Old by Bradley Charbonneau of PassTheSourCream.com. Creativity in, creativity out. Life needs circulation. Even a car's engine needs to turn, sometimes to turn fast and clean out the gunk that builds up over time. But there's a process, a flow,

[00:01:16] a circle, a cycle. We have so much input every day, media, conversations, thoughts, even just taking a walk. It's practically a hurricane of overwhelming sensory data. What's a brain to do with it all? We need an outlet. All of this information is coming in. Think of

[00:01:37] a garden hose in a bucket, but it never turns off, it just keeps filling, keeps coming in. Pretty quickly, it's going to overflow. Is that then wasted water? What if we could use

[00:01:49] it, harness it, filter it, and then send it back out as something even more useful? This is how creativity works. We need input to have output. We talk about the blank page

[00:02:02] and we are going to fill it with words, paint, or a business plan, but we have to have something to work with, something that fills our brains that will fill that page, or canvas, or sound

[00:02:13] waves, etc. Is the input just anything that we take in? Is a walk in the park the same for person A as it is for person B? If person A walks in the park and doesn't take anything

[00:02:24] in, maybe they need less to offload. Maybe there is less circulation of thoughts, ideas, and creativity. If person B walks through the park and takes it in, filters what they want, repels what they don't want, sees things maybe others wouldn't see, and then has

[00:02:42] an outlet, then it builds a circle, a cycle of thoughts and ideas that are filtered through person B's mind to become something else, something new, something different. Who will you be when you're 103? My dear neighbor Tony is turning 103 in a few days. How many people

[00:03:01] over say 80 do you know who live like this? He lives on his own, no help, no nurse, nobody else. He is in excellent health. In recent years he's been using a walker, but he gets

[00:03:15] around fine, especially if it's to show you his art. He works. Sorry, did you catch that? He works. I know 13 year olds who are too lazy to work. That's 90 years younger. But he doesn't call it work, it's what he loves to do. This is creativity. This is output.

[00:03:35] He has a sense of humor. I tend to classify older people into glass half full and glass half empty. His cup runneth over. He reads the newspaper, watches movies, and listens to music. This is input. He eats white bread, doesn't drink, and often has frozen TV dinners.

[00:03:55] If you don't know what a TV dinner is, it's better that way. And he gets at least 8 hours of sleep a night. There are probably other reasons he's reached such a milestone in years. I'm focusing on the fact that he works and gets input.

[00:04:10] Take a human body or a car engine, take your pick. Both need to move, to turn. They survive and thrive on input and output. Stuff goes in and stuff goes out. The more it moves or

[00:04:25] turns or cycles, the better. It keeps it clean, healthy, and alive. Creativity needs both input and output. I keep forgetting that you don't know Tony. He's an artist. He's been an artist most of his life, which almost certainly is longer than you've lived your

[00:04:43] entire life. He paints and he sculpts. He still works. He still draws and sketches and creates new characters. His characters on his canvas come to life. They have names and personalities. Ask him, he'll tell you all about them. But he also has input. Well, most of us

[00:05:01] have input. We are bombarded by television, screens, audio, video, human interaction, and even nature. But most of us don't have enough output. In my not-even-close-to-a-medical opinion, we need an outlet for all of that inlet or things get clogged up, just like your car or

[00:05:22] your body. I'm not too worried about people's inputs, with the exception of how or what, or what we let in. It's the output that I think we're lacking. It's the output that releases

[00:05:33] the pressure on the valve which then again makes room for more to come in. Then the process can keep going. But there's a kicker. Here's the secret. With each cycle, it gets better. We get smarter. We become more accomplished and experienced and knowledgeable. This is experience.

[00:05:52] This is training. This is who we become. I know you get enough input. How are you doing on the output? You just listen to the post titled, This is how you live to be 103 years old by Bradley

[00:06:11] Charbonneau of PassASourCream.com. Thank you to Bradley for this one. This is what I aspire to, to be like his neighbor Tony. Something we often talk about over on one of our other podcasts where

[00:06:23] we read blogs to you, Optimal Finance Daily, we talk about FI or F-I which stands for Financial Independence. Sometimes the whole movement is called FIRE, Financial Independence Retire Early. You'll find some amazing people who are part of that community or movement if you want to call it

[00:06:41] that, looking to cut costs but also make more money and to grow that gap between income and expenses then take that gap and invest it in the right places to earn 7 to 10 percent using index funds.

[00:06:55] And I love that stuff. It's great. But there's a piece that's often missing. Yes, you can do it and save enough to retire early. But is that the actual goal? Because if so, then what? What is

[00:07:09] retirement? Is it vacationing? Then for how long? When does that become too much where you just want to go back to your home base? And then what do you do? Retiring early sounds great on paper but most

[00:07:22] older people I know didn't actually want to retire necessarily because they were afraid of losing meaning in life. For Tony, Bradley's neighbor, he's still creating. Maybe art isn't your thing. That's totally fine. Creation could be creating a get-together with friends or family, creating dinner,

[00:07:43] creating a nice home for a pet, you name it. That's all creation. But the important thing is having some kind of plan for that because retirement alone doesn't bring happiness. Creation does. So keep creating and outputting as well as inputting, which is the job of this podcast

[00:08:01] really. Have a great day and night and I'll be back tomorrow as usual where your optimal life awaits.