'Witness Success - 5 Straight Rules For You To Give Good Evidence In A Court Of #Law'
Click picture - Would you survive the
witness box? Would you appear credible? Would you withstand cross examination?
Even if you never expect to be giving evidence, the techniques you learn in
Witness Success are valuable in everyday life.
This expert text will take you
only an hour or two to read.
Witness Success: 5 Straight Rules For You To Give
Good Evidence In A Court Of Law is written by Court Counsel, a practicing trial
lawyer with the experience of decades of conducting litigation in law courts
around the world.
What you will learn from this concise text are simple
techniques and disciplines to allow you to enter the Court with confidence and
focus.
“Lifespan – why we age – and why we don’t have to” excerpt
So it certainly makes sense when people say that we might continue to chip away at the average, but we’re not likely to move the limit. They say it’s easy to extend the maximum life span of mice or dogs, but we humans are different. We simply live too long already.
They are wrong.
There’s also a difference between extending life and prolonging vitality. We’re capable of both, but simply keeping people alive – decades after their lives have become defined by pain, disease, frailty and immobility - is no virtue.
Prolonged vitality – meaning not just more years of life but more active, healthy, and happy ones – is coming. It is coming sooner than most people expect. By the time the children who are born today have reached middle age, Jeanne Calment [a French woman who died in 1997 at the age of 122] may not even be on the list of the top 100 oldest people of all time. And by the turn of the next century, a person who is 122 on the day of his or her death may be said to have lived a full, though not particularly long, life. One hundred and twenty years might be not an outlier but an expectation, so much so that we won’t even call it longevity; we will simply call it “life”, and we will look back with sadness on the time in our history in which it was not so.
What’s the upward limit? I don’t think there is one. Many of my colleagues agree. There is no biological law that says we must age. Those who say there is don’t know what they’re talking about. We’re probably still a long way off from a world in which death is a rarity, but we’re not far from pushing it ever farther into the future.
All of this, in fact, is inevitable. Prolonged healthy lifespans are in sight. Yes, the entire history or humanity suggests otherwise. But the science if lifespan extension in this particular century says that the previous dead ends are poor guides.
It takes radical thinking to even begin to approach what this will mean for put species. Nothing in our billions of years of evolution has prepared us for this, which is why it’s so easy, and even alluring, to believe that it simply cannot be done. But that’s what people thought about human flight, too – up until the moment someone did it.
Today the Wright Brothers are back in their workshop, having successfully flown the gliders down the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk. The world is about to change.
And just as was the case in the days leading up to December 17, 1903, the majority of humanity is oblivious. There was simply no context with which to construct the idea of controlled, powered flight back then, so the idea was fanciful, magical, the stuff of speculative fiction.
Then lift off. And nothing was ever the same again.
We are at another point of historical inflection. What hereto seemed magical will become real. It is a time in which humanity will redefine what is possible; a time of ending the inevitable.
Indeed, it is a time in which we will redefine
what it means to be human, for this is not just the start of a revolution, it
is the start of an evolution.
By Professor David A Sinclair PhD AO Professor of
Genetics, Harvard Medical School Professor of Aging at the University of New
South Wales, in the introduction to his 2019 work “Lifespan – why we age – and
why we don’t have to” published by Harper Collins, available from Amazon, Booktopia, etc.
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