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How Intergenerational Social Connectedness Impacts Your Health
Children are the bearers and promoters of our more noble human qualities. When we are with them we fluctuate between their unbridled optimism and our experiential skepticism; between boundless energy and growing fatigue; curiosity and experience; and innocence and wisdom. While the experience of being with children is not always...
How To Become an Architect and Further Your Mind
When I was in medical school, the prevailing belief was that once we reached physical maturity, our brains were fully formed and ceased to make new brain tissue. Therefore, all of the conditions associated with aging (e.g. head trauma, hypoxia, heart attacks) gradually depleted the neurons in brains, causing them...
It’s Time to Get to Work on Retirement
You might be asking yourself, “can I retire at 62?” Even if you are a late starter to retirement planning, you may be much closer than you think. You can create a realistic retirement plan even if you don’t have time to build savings by considering your current assets, factoring...
Generation Power
Fyodor Dostoevsky, the famous Russian author of the immensely powerful and dark Crime and Punishment, said, “The soul is healed by being with children.” His fellow Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy, author of the character-rich War and Peace, and Anna Karenina founded 13 schools for peasant children. These two formidable writers...
Bring It! Four Ways to Age with Gusto
Did you know that your brain continues to develop across a lifespan? It has the capacity for nerve regeneration and pathway rewiring, and it has the ability to grow new tissue. In fact, your clever brain produces nearly 10,000 new cells every day! Use them, and you can strengthen your...
Your Life as a Masterpiece
The Masai have a saying: Life is change. If we’re alive, we are indeed changing, and as we get older, that change is more likely to be unwelcome. Being the best we can be as we age, then, is doing all we can to prevent adverse things from happening, but...