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Now that we’re past Thanksgiving in the U.S., the holiday season is in full effect. There will be eating, and drinking, and general merriment. Why not indulge? Your fitness goals can wait until January — that’s what New Year’s resolutions are for, right? Well, we all know by now how dismal the success rate is …
The media mythos around the young innovative entrepreneur turns out to be … just a myth. We already know that the average age of a successful startup founder is 45. But what may surprise you is that entrepreneurs over the age of 50 are more innovative than their younger counterparts. Whether you’re driven by radical …
The year is 1994. In February, the film Reality Bites debuts, designed to chronicle the unique experiences of a new generation. In April, Kurt Cobain – the reluctant voice of that generation – is found dead from a self-inflicted shotgun blast. And in September, a new show called Friends premiers on NBC, becoming the surprise …
In college, the only course I ever flunked was Philosophy 101. At 18, I just couldn’t wrap my head around the exploration of the meaning of life. Now, I can’t get enough of it. Having lived for more than a half-century through numerous extreme events and had the audacity to perpetuate the human race with …
When Social Security was introduced in 1935, the concept of “retirement” was essentially new. It was a bold move to protect older people, many of whom did backbreaking manual labor and needed a way to stop working. The U.S. government knew that most workers wouldn’t even make it to age 62 and, therefore, would never …
Steve Jobs gave a famous commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 that has been summed up as “Follow your passion.” Here’s what Jobs actually said: You’ve got to find what you love…. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t …
By now you’re familiar with the midlife transition, or as we like to call it, midlife dissatisfaction. Not quite a crisis, but certainly a vague sense of discontent. In other words, you’re less-than-happy in your forties. But then 50 comes around, and according to research, things start to turn around and keep going in a …
When people finally decide to turn to meditation, it’s often due to suffering. You’re stressed, anxious, and unhappy thanks to unwelcome thoughts and a mind that seems to have turned against you. It’s actually the default mode network (DMN) inside your brain that’s working against you. When you’re thinking about the past or worrying about …
You can’t avoid being told to move more at every turn. And for good reason, as it’s the key to vastly improving your quality of life, now and as you get older. But sometimes the advice doesn’t hit the way it needs to despite the benefits. And that’s when you might need to look at …
There’s a reason they call us the “sandwich generation.” That’s when people at middle-age care for both their aging parents and their own children to varying degrees. It’s a historically unique situation because on one hand our parents are living longer, while on the other we delayed having our own kids until later in life. …
Recently, a person who hadn’t seen me in a while commented that I had clearly been working out. “What are you training for?” she asked. All I could think to say was, “Life.” It was both a fair question and a legitimate answer. Many people at midlife turn to extreme athletic challenges like marathons and …
By now you know the many benefits of meditation. You get it, and you need a way to actually do it. But just in case you need further motivation… research reveals that meditation keeps your brain young as you get older. High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging shows that large parts of the gray matter in the …