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John Todor: To reach brain potential, we need less individual “improv”

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John-Todor
John I. Todor

What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there?
As the Co-Founder of Living55Plus.com, I enjoy the oppor­tu­ni­ty to curate the new research show­ing how lifestyle impacts men­tal, phys­i­cal and social well-being, and to help build a com­mu­ni­ty to share every­day experiences.

Please tell us about your inter­est in applied brain sci­ence. What areas are you most inter­est­ed in? What moti­vat­ed you to pur­sue work in your field?
My Ph.D. is in Edu­ca­tion­al Psy­chol­o­gy, fol­lowed by post-doc­tor­al work in cog­ni­tive sci­ence and clin­i­cal neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy. I am most inter­est­ed in uncov­er­ing how lifestyles, what we do day in and out and how we do it, includ­ing our jobs, con­tribute to well-being. How can we devel­op and apply meth­ods to help peo­ple adopt healthy lifestyles and replace tox­ic behav­iors? [Read more…] about John Todor: To reach brain poten­tial, we need less indi­vid­ual “improv”

Longevity, Conscientiousness and Work

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There’s an excel­lent arti­cle in the New York Times (Eighty Years Along, a Longevi­ty Study Still Has Ground to Cov­er) about a very wor­thy new book based on a fas­ci­nat­ing series of research stud­ies: The Longevi­ty Project: Sur­pris­ing Dis­cov­er­ies for Health and Long Life from the Land­mark Eight-Decade Study is the book where UC-River­side researchers Howard Fried­man and Leslie Mar­tin draw key lessons from an eight-decade-long Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Ter­man study of 1,500 people.

Quotes from the article:

- Many assume biol­o­gy is the crit­i­cal fac­tor in longevi­ty. If your par­ents lived to be 85, you prob­a­bly will, too. Not so, Dr. Fried­man said. [Read more…] about Longevi­ty, Con­sci­en­tious­ness and Work