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Fewer than 10 percent of the individuals who sign up to participate in her studies have the memory and mental capacity to meet the scientific criteria for being a super ager, she says.
Jeanne Dorin McDowell • Celebrating What's Right With Aging: Inside the Minds of Super Agers
(Counterintuitively, young men are among the biggest consumers of Viagra-type drugs.)
Nan Wise • Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life
for greater scientific understanding (23andMe) or in propagating user-submitted data to motivate behavior change in others (traineo).
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
90% of the human brain develops before the age of 5 (Y Combinator).
FRNTIER | Dec Thomas | Substack
“we maxed out intelligence but minimized wisdom”
Young brains are designed to explore; old brains are designed to exploit.
Derek Sivers • The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
For most of human history, a genius was born, lived, and died, and no one knew a thing about him or her; today’s technology changes that