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Fun Is For All Ages

Fun is not limited to youth; people of all ages can find fun and happiness through enjoyable activities. While sources of fun may change over the years, the ability to have fun does not diminish with age. This is evidenced by 74-year-old Jack McKeon, who led the Florida Marlins to a World Series victory in 2003 after becoming the third-oldest manager in baseball history. Studies also show that engaging in enjoyable activities promotes life satisfaction for those over 50. McKeon found managing in the majors surrounded by much younger players kept him feeling young at heart.

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Fun Is For All Ages

Fun is not limited to youth; people of all ages can find fun and happiness through enjoyable activities. While sources of fun may change over the years, the ability to have fun does not diminish with age. This is evidenced by 74-year-old Jack McKeon, who led the Florida Marlins to a World Series victory in 2003 after becoming the third-oldest manager in baseball history. Studies also show that engaging in enjoyable activities promotes life satisfaction for those over 50. McKeon found managing in the majors surrounded by much younger players kept him feeling young at heart.

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Fun Is for All Ages

Fun is for young people. They have the time, they have the
oppor-
Those may be common assumptions,
but none are true. Though the source of fun and happiness
may
change over the course of our lives, our ability to have fun
and our
interest in doing so are in no way reduced as we age.
the dugout and from the front office.
In 2003, he was out of baseball. “I wasn’t retired,” he says,
“just
in between jobs.”
Then, two months into the baseball season, the Florida
Marlins
With no hesitation, Jack took the job, becoming the third-
oldest
He found himself surrounded by ballplayers younger than his
grandchildren. But he had no fear that he could no longer
relate to
tunity, they have the ability.
Seventy-four-year-old Jack McKeon has spent nearly all of his
adult life involved in major-league baseball. He has run teams
from
called. They needed a new manager who could turn the
team’s fortunes
around. Immediately.
manager in baseball history.
young players. In fact, “being around these guys has made
me a
citizen discount at restaurants.”
Jack still has a serious competitiveness and work ethic that
motivate him to show up at the stadium ten hours before a
game.
And he expects his players to share that drive. But he never
lets
himself or his players forget that “baseball should be fun.” He
says,
“If you are happy and relaxed, you thrive. If you are a tense
perfectionist,
this game will break you down.”
Series victory in 2003.
Studies have shown that each additional enjoyable activity
that people over fifty engage in per month increases
their likelihood of life satisfaction by 2 percent.
young kid again,” Jack says. “I feel so young, I quit using my
senior-
Jack’s team hardly broke down: he led the Marlins to a World
inspiration are the elixirs of life.
from a whole different vantage point than most people.
Looking at the flowers in a vase, the amateur photographer
wondered what kind of picture he might be able to create if
he took
an extreme close-up of a single perfect rose petal. He
positioned his
camera only inches away from the flowers and created a
photo in
which one petal fills the entire frame.
When he saw the developed photo, he was excited: “The
close-up
has the effect of distorting what you are looking at. If you
didn’t
know it was a rose petal.

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