How can I grow taller?

pacificvista
Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:38:25 +0000

Honestly there’s no reason for you to be sad about this, you can’t do anything about it. You can keep being negative about this until you give up, or you can give up now and just work what you got. I’m kind of short too, I’m 5’9 as well, I have long legs (my inseam is 32 inches) but a really small torso, so basically from the ground to my hip bone it’s 37 inches and from my hip bone to my head tip it’s only around 33 inches. I know I’m not short, I just have a small torso. It’s not unheard of for guys to experience growth spurts into their 20s.

I’ve heard that Kevin Costner was really short until his early 20s, when he grew from 5’3 to 6’1. Yes, taller people make more per capita, but that statistic might be flawed. For instance, taller people are more likely to be athletes, and professional athletes make more money than “regular” working folks, not necessarily because being taller makes them better people, it’s basically because they are athletes and they’re tall. Also, supposedly, shorter people live longer than taller people. The group of people with the highest life expectancy age is the Japanese, and they are fairly short. As long as you’re not uncommonly short, it’s not going to affect your standard of living that much. I love how we all have this big idea in our heads that you have to be this tall, super intelligent, super terrific person to be successful and it’s not like that at all (the tall part).