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MetLife Mature Market Institute: Balancing Money, Medicine and Meaning

January 17, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

Just a quick heads up: the MetLife Mature Mar­ket Insti­tute has pub­lished a new report: titled Dis­cov­er­ing What Mat­ters: Bal­anc­ing Mon­ey, Med­i­cine and Meaning.

Descrip­tion: “The adage that mon­ey can’t buy hap­pi­ness is sup­port­ed ana­lyt­i­cal­ly by new research demon­strat­ing the impor­tance of hav­ing pur­pose in one’s life and that the most con­tent peo­ple focus on the non-finan­cial essen­tials in their lives, even dur­ing dif­fi­cult eco­nom­ic times.  Liv­ing the “good life” for mid­dle-aged and old­er Amer­i­cans is equat­ed with spend­ing time with fam­i­ly and friends, a pre­vi­ous­ly unquan­ti­fied find­ing, accord­ing to the MetLife Mature Mar­ket Insti­tute’s lat­est study, Dis­cov­er­ing What Mat­ters: Bal­anc­ing Mon­ey, Med­i­cine and Mean­ing, pro­duced in con­junc­tion with lead­ing author, life coach, and exec­u­tive edu­ca­tor, Richard Lei­der.  They describe the good life in terms of hav­ing health, a finan­cial safe­ty net and the time to do what is impor­tant to them.”

Report is avail­able Here (PDF, 69 kb).

Will com­ment in a few days, when I get the chance to take a look at it. Have a nice weekend!

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: baby-booomers, Mature, Meaning, medicine, MetLife-Mature-Market-Institute, Money, Richard-Leider

Cognitive Enhancement, Aging Baby Boomers, and the Legal Profession

December 20, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

A quick note to alert you of two very inter­est­ing, grow­ing, and some­how linked debates:

1) Very insight­ful arti­cle on The Aging of the Baby Boomers: What Does It Mean for the Legal Pro­fes­sion (thank you, Stephanie!). Some quotes:

- “As I pen this arti­cle, it seems as though I’m writ­ing about some­one else the old­er work­er. Age and aging, it seems, are in the eye of the one look­ing back at you in the mir­ror. I have this the­o­ry, espe­cial­ly as it per­tains to men, that when we look in the mir­ror, we still see that 20 year-old stud who can leap tall build­ings. But I know that my ver­ti­cal leap is not what it used to be. The real­i­ty of aging in the legal pro­fes­sion is upon me and those of our generation.”

- “Also, the per­cep­tion of how old is old varies depend­ing on the job or pro­fes­sion. For exam­ple, [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive Enhance­ment, Aging Baby Boomers, and the Legal Profession

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Aging-Baby-Boomers, brain-enhancing-drugs, Brain-health, cognitive-enhancement, cognitive-interventions, drugs, lawyers, Legal-Profession, Mature, old, retire, retirement

Top 10 Brain Teasers and Games, with a neuroscience angle

January 29, 2007 by Caroline Latham

No mat­ter what we are read­ing or doing, there is always the need to take a lit­tle break and chal­lenge our minds (and to learn a bit about how our brains work). Here you have a selec­tion of the 10 Brain Teasers that peo­ple have enjoyed most in this site.

1. Do you think you know the col­ors?: the Stroop Test

2. Can you count?: Bas­ket­ball atten­tion experiment

3. Plan­ning is not that easy: Tow­ers of Hanoi

4. Inter­ac­tive visu­al illu­sion: the Muller-Lyer Illusion

5. Who is this?: A very impor­tant lit­tle guy

5. How many…: Train your Frontal and Pari­etal lobes

6. What’s the miss­ing num­ber: Pat­tern Recog­ni­tion Brain Teaser

7. Who’s the eldest?: Rea­son­ing Skills Brain Teaser

8. Brain Puz­zle for the Whole Brain: The Blind Beggar

9. Is a cir­cle a cir­cle?: Visu­al Per­cep­tion Brain Teaser

10. How is this possible?
[Read more…] about Top 10 Brain Teasers and Games, with a neu­ro­science angle

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, brain, Brain Teasers, Brain-exercises, Brain-Fitness, Brain-games, Casual-Games, Darwin, drugs, lawyers, Lifelong-learning-brain-fitness-oslo-80-20-rule-tony-robbins-unfair-advantage-start-up-commitment-passion-san-francisco-google-memory-problems-md-phd-program, Mature, mental-exercise, Mind-Games, mind-teasers, mindset, MyBrainTrainer, old, stroop-neuropsychological, Visual-Illusion, what-is-the-stroop-test

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