To have a long, good life, I must follow these rules:
DOS
- Run barefoot in the cold. It makes you happy, proud and fit.
- Be curious, but focus your curiosity
- Read aloud
- Read novels
- Compassionate meditation
- Be mindful
- Assume wisdom can increase with age
- Learn new words in the language of your choice
- Learn how to improve your memory
DONTS
- do not read newspapers
- do not follow NBA, or any other sport
- Don’t feel sory for someone who doesn’t need it.
APPEARANCE
- grow a big, white beard
- be barefoot (EDIT: weather and social rules permitting)
LESSONS LEARNED
- Everyone thinks they’re curious when they’re warm and rested. It’s a different matter to be curious through adversity.
- It’s not as easy as pie to learn to enjoy eating
- It’s more often better than your best case scenario than worse than your worst case scenario — but almost always somewhere in between anyway.
- The hero mode is not your instinctive mode.
On Old Age 
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There was a barefoot runner in Fredricksberg I used to see often. No beard though. I know it is supposed to be better for your sole/soul, but I often wonder if they had pavement in mind when they came up with that. You’ve piqued my curiosity. I shall be back.
Oh yes, pavements are good, especially the clean ones. I’ll be running around søerne as soon as the snow melts (tomorrow); stop me if you see me and give you all the arguments in favour of barefoot running.