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“Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly your intergenerational family.
— Stephen Covey
Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 8th Habit : From Effectiveness to Greatness (2004), p. 63
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