The amazing fertility of the older mind

What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set? (Published 2014)

Ellen Langer’s experiments have shown that mental attitudes might reverse some ravages of old age. Now she wants to test that same radical principle on cancer.

Does adolescence really last until age 32?

Those “turning points” in brain aging aren’t quite what you think

Six Ways to Think Long-term: A Cognitive Toolkit for Good Ancestors

None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy.

Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore

Your brain's middle finger to people-pleasing

Lifestyle May Be Key to Slowing Brain's Aging

Like many Americans sliding into middle age, Kimberly McClain started worrying that her memory was beginning to slip.

how to pay attention again (the neuroscience of focus in the age of everything)

on the attention economy, and reclaiming your brain’s right to choose

The Principles of Getting Ahead.

Two people can start from almost the same place. Same age. Similar intelligence. Same 24 hours in a day. Five years later, their lives can look completely different. 1 One has built valuable skills

The Busy Person's Guide to Thinking

Thinking better isn't about learning more; it's about doing a few simple things that really help create unstoppable progress.

Use the 2-7-30 rule to radically improve your memory - Fast Company

150 years of science shows this brain hack can radically improve your memory. Entrepreneurs and anyone else who needs to learn things fast should take note.

Three important steps in my maturation process – Thomas Dullien / Halvar Flake

My father passed recently, and he was twice my age. I am approximately the same age that he was when I was born, and I am now “the old generation” - there’s no one left in the generation above me.

Use it or lose it: How cognitive skills change with age

Cognitive skills are commonly assumed to begin deteriorating from the age of 30, which could pose a significant challenge for rapidly ageing populations. But this assumption relies largely on cross-sectional data that cannot distinguish between ageing patterns and cohort differences. Using German longitudinal data, this column finds that skills, on average, increase markedly into one’s 40s before decreasing slightly in literacy and more severely in numeracy. In addition, skills decline at older ages only for those with below-average skill usage, outlining a clear policy pathway for avoiding skill declines.

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

I’m learning to code at 56. Here’s an epic beat-down of my critical inner self.

By VM Vaughn I’m 56 years old and learning to code. Why? Because I love it. And I’ve got a knack for it. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. It’s hard. And that’s OK. I love losing myself in an algorithm challenge. I love squeezing in a few extra minutes te...

Choose Boring Technology

How to be old, for young people.

No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent | New Scientist

The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife – but wrong, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett