At 93, I feel I have lived long enough to have a personal opinion on longevity. I read an article that says your personality may be the key to a very long life. They examined the personality traits of 246 children of people who lived to be at least 100. The study showed that those who live the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic than other people.
(Time/CNN – The Year in Health 2009)
If this is true, they didn’t interview the offspring of the people who live in my building. I was under the opinion that the crabby, nit picking and somewhat neurotic lived the longest, or maybe that’s just how it feels. But then again, I have been active, outgoing and interested in everything around me –so I guess the study is true.
About Me
- Ethel's Opinion
- Ethel Dimont is a lecturer and author. In 1962 she co-author Jews, God and History, along with her husband Max I. Dimont, which received critical acclaim and has sold almost 3 million copies which the Los Angeles Times praised as, "unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language". Because of the success of the book, Ethel, along with her husband Max, has traveled the world over, having met with heads of state such as David Ben Gurion, Menachem Begin, Martin Buber and several other Arab Middle Eastern leaders. In 1972 a car accident changed the focus of Ethel’s life. An improperly diagnosed closed head injury caused a slow erosion of her health. She has now authored a book The Hidden Injury, which takes you through the struggles of living with a misdiagnosis, to finding the correct information that can help deal with the recovery of a head injury." Ethel is a native of New York City, but moved to St. Louis, Missouri after her marriage to Max in 1946, (now deceased). Her daughter, son-in-law, three grandsons, two great grand-daughters and one great grandson, still live in New York City.
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