You will die in 3,630 weeks
Each cell represents 1 week of your life. The chart below spans 52 cells across representing the weeks in a given year, and 91 cells down, representing the (hopefully) 91 years of your life.
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By the numbers
Your life at a glance
You're on week 1,103 of 4,732 of your life
This estimate assumes you'll die when you're 91, but if you live in the U.S. the Office of Social Security thinks you'll die at around 83
Most people work between the age of 22 to 65, meaning we spend about 2,236 weeks in the "career" phase
Most people will spend about 936 weeks in retirement. Triple digits
If you sleep 8 hours a day, you will likely spend more than 1,500 weeks of your life asleep
On average, women get 364 more weeks of life than men
If it takes 50 weeks to become advanced at any skill, you can learn about 44 new skills during your career or 64 if you include retirement. Might as well pick something for this week (SkillShare)
How are others doing?
Impressive weeks for impressive people
List view of the accomplishments from the graph above
Michael Phelps
Week of their life: 821
Age that week: 15
Accomplishment:
Breaks his first world record - the 200 m butterfly.
Simone Biles
Week of their life: 1,012
Age that week: 19
Accomplishment:
Wins her first gold medal in the Rio Olympics. Simone ends up with four golds that year.
Steve Jobs
Week of their life: 1,101
Age that week: 21
Accomplishment:
Along with Steve Wozniak, Steve starts Apple in Los Altos.
Jennifer Lawrence
Week of their life: 1,175
Age that week: 22
Accomplishment:
Attends the 85th Academy Awards this week. For her performace in "Silver Linings Playbook", she wins an Oscar for Best Actress.
Albert Einstein
Week of their life: 1,369
Age that week: 26
Accomplishment:
Releases the first of his four groundbreaking papers of 1905. The year many consider his annus mirabilis (miracle year).
Michael Jordan
Week of their life: 1,502
Age that week: 28
Accomplishment:
The week of the '91 NBA Championships, where Michael helps the Bulls take the first of six championships during his career.
Bill Gates
Week of their life: 1,617
Age that week: 31
Accomplishment:
Though Microsoft went public when Bill Gates was 28, it was this week in his life that he became a billionaire at 31.
Ellen Ochoa
Week of their life: 1,821
Age that week: 34
Accomplishment:
Takes first mission to space on STS-56 ATLAS-2 Discovery in 1993. Becomes first Hispanic woman to go to space.
John Legend
Week of their life: 2,072
Age that week: 39
Accomplishment:
Becomes the youngest person to achieve EGOT status, meaning he's won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. This week highlights his Emmy win.
Sara Blakely
Week of their life: 2,139
Age that week: 41
Accomplishment:
Sara Blakely was 27 when she started the first version of Spanx. But, it was this week in her life that she became the youngest self-made female billionaire at the time.
JFK
Week of their life: 2,267
Age that week: 43
Accomplishment:
This week in John F. Kennedy's life marks the end of the 1960 election, when JFK becomes the youngest president in the history of the U.S.
Barack Obama
Week of their life: 2,465
Age that week: 47
Accomplishment:
Becomes the 44th president of the U.S. and first black president of the U.S. after the 2008 election.
Steve Jobs (but older)
Week of their life: 2,706
Age that week: 51
Accomplishment:
This week marks the first reveal of the iPhone at MacWorld 2007, "a phone, a music player, and a breakthrough internet communications device."
Mahatma Gandhi
Week of their life: 3,152
Age that week: 60
Accomplishment:
Leads the salt march in protest of the British-imposed salt tax.
Grace Hopper
Week of their life: 3,295
Age that week: 63
Accomplishment:
After a lifetime of being a pioneer of computer programming, Grace Hopper develops the implementation of standards for testing computer systems and components for the entirety of the Defense Department
Dolores Huerta
Week of their life: 3,742
Age that week: 71
Accomplishment:
Starts the Dolores Huerta Foundation after a lifetime of fighting for worker's, immigrant's and women's rights
Maya Angelou
Week of their life: 4,434
Age that week: 85
Accomplishment:
Publishes the seventh volume of her autobiography, titled "Mom & Me & Mom"
Susan B. Anthony
Week of their life: 4,272
Age that week: 81
Accomplishment:
Creates the International Woman Suffrage Alliance after a life of pushing the women's suffrage movement.
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How was this made?
This site was based on an a post from Tim Urban's, Wait But Why and Kurzgesagt's video, Optimistic Nihilism
Orginally, I had a personal chart on galeeb.com and visitors either thought it was awesome or very scary. So I thought let's let others see their own!
This site was built using React which I learned working at Kapwing
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