The centenarian decathlon: list what you want to do at the end of life, then work backwards to today

A personal planning framework described by its author. Tagged [A] as an accurate description of what he says; the framework itself has not been tested.

His example tasks include getting up off the floor with a single point of support, picking up a 30 lb child from a squat, lifting 30 lb overhead into a bin, getting out of a pool without a ladder, and walking up three flights of stairs with 10 lb of groceries in each hand. He says it makes more sense to focus on the framework than on his own list, because people differ.

In podcast #261 (10 July 2023) he defines "the marginal decade" as the last decade of your life: the decade the age-85 goals are meant to protect.

No trial has tested backcasting or Attia’s task targets. The tasks and numbers are his own judgment.

The app is built on this idea, with 85 as the line age. Several of its sixteen goals adapt Attia’s tasks; their targets are our judgment, and the test pages on this site say, goal by goal, which targets sit near a published number and which do not.