When Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad turned 100 earlier this year, he marked his birthday by following a lifelong routine of discipline: he ate little, worked a lot, and did not succumb to the lure of rest. “The main thing is that I work all the time. I don’t rest myself,” Mahathir told Al Jazeera. “I am always using my mind and body. Keep your mind and body active, then you live longer,” he said. From a desk at his office in Putrajaya city, south of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, he spent his centenary like most days: penning his thoughts on the Malaysian economy, the country’s political situation and unfolding world events, particularly the situation in Gaza.
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