The Wisdom Paradox, How your mind can grow stronger as your brain grows older by Elkhonon Golberg - ISBN 114652262X - originally published by The Free Press 2005, Pocket Books 2007
Motivation for reading this book
Offered as a gift to my aging father for his 60ish birthday after watching and sharing with him the documentary The Wisdom Year (cf See also section). Aging and brain aging, as I consider it our most important organ regarding survival and competitive advantage, is not limited to the later part of life but is an on-going process. As so I wanted to understand how it went on, how I could help him but also myself.
Reading
- Book overview (page11)
- structure?
- main thesis?
- Epilogue: The price of wisdom
- review
- numerous schemas showing the different brain parts and how they evolve
- the last chapters sounds a bit like an advertisement for his own workshops
Reading
- 1 Introduction to Template
- "interesting quote." (p1)
- note
- ...
- 2 Interesting thing
- (p20)
See also
- Health#LifeExtension
- Cognitive Changes with Aging: What Can You Expect? Stanford University Medical Center 2006
- The Art of Aging University of Washington 2007
- Wisdom compensates for cognitive decline? by Dan Goldstein, Decision Science News, May 2009
- The Wisdom Years, WHO Kobe Centre and the UNU Media Studio 2007
- UPFing’08 : Dans un Japon déjà vieux, InternetActu.net 2008
- Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain at TED 2004
- Neuroplasticity and How the Brain Adapts to Aging by Mark P. Mattson, Geriatrics & Aging 2001
- Episode 5 : The Aging Brain of The Secret Life of the Brain, PBS 2001
- Wikipedia:Memory and aging
Overall remarks and questions
- this? that?
Synthesis
So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.
Critics
Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.
Vocabulary
(:new_vocabulary_start:) new_word (:new_vocabulary_end:)
Post-reading model
Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.
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