This is a very interesting question. I also watched this issue TED. I thought about it very hard and realized that for sure I would invest in providing myself and my future children with housing. Why not? It's very important that you always have somewhere to go back to and you don't worry that day you'll be left on the street. This is exactly the logic I followed when I took a huge house on a mortgage. But I also understood that everything needs to be approached wisely, so I decided to hire a adviser with the help of Mortgage Advice York, so that he would give me confidence that I would not overpay crazy interest for housing.

Great talk, thank you.

This is terrific.

It's true that, for many, much of the focus lies in building and establishing careers in earlier years. A quest for money and success supercedes the building of healthy relationships.

Creating financial stability for one's future self is important, but not at the price the speaker mentions here. Healthy, stable, trusting relationships are also key to a long, healthy life.

My future self? What if I invest in my current self first?

I invest my time in learning; it’s a lifelong thing.
My Dad’s sister, husband and kids had an encyclopedia set. When we visited, my sibs went to play with their sibs. I was shyer then and went to the encyclopedias.

Thank you. I had read something on this study but I've never seen the TedTalk. And I too wish that women had been included in the study because we have been enculturated so much differently than men. I wonder what differences would have been shown - I think I know some of them but I am really just projecting.

Exercise so I can stay limber & maintain house/yard!

Thank you Miss Kathleen. That was fabulous.