Howard Tucker, a neurologist, lawyer, and still active at 102—once said: “Retirement is the real enemy of longevity.
If you stop working, learning, moving it’s like telling your body and mind they’re obsolete.
I walk five kilometers a day, snowshoe in winter, keep learning, and got my law degree at 67.
My advice: don’t retire from life. Retire from inaction.”
At his age, many people are just waiting for life to pass by. But he keeps studying, walking, working. Not out of duty, but out of conviction. Because nothing is more dangerous than standing still.
Even the heart rusts if you don’t use it. Tucker is not an exception—he’s a reminder: That there’s still time. That purpose knows no age. That every day we choose to move, think, and create… we’re winning against death.
At 102 , Tucker was recognised by Guiness Book of Records as oldest practising doctor *Love all. Serve all.* *Help ever. Hurt never.*
