If a person has a purpose in life, a mission, and engages in very strong and specific types of activities with peaks of distress, it triggers biophysical processes that can enhance resistance to diseases and harmful factors, increase the body’s ability to self-heal, promote active longevity, and delay dementia. Statistical data confirms this with a high degree of correlation. A reverse effect is also observed. The absence of life’s purpose and a low level of activity trigger degenerative processes that quickly lead to death, an example being severe forms of depression with a frustrating nature. Even if we find a way to bypass apoptosis and the Hayflick limit at the cellular level, it doesn’t guarantee an increase in lifespan in the face of a lack of meaning or an existential crisis. A rather metaphysical hypothesis arises: an entity that lacks intention and motivation for existence automatically disintegrates and turns into nothingness. Motivation, the reason to live, is a kind of binding energy that not only compels action, but also compels existence, because any physical entity consumes energy. The essence of this energy is will, motivation, and as soon as this will disappears, the entity soon perishes. In inanimate systems, this process takes a very long time, in biological systems it’s faster, and in mental systems, it’s even faster. This principle can be interpreted to mean that there is a level of energy that ensures the very existence of systems, and this is the energy of meaning, which descends from above. How can we motivate retirees to engage in research, a specifically complex activity, on a regular basis?