The Wisdom Paradox {ReadingNotes}

The Wisdom Paradox, How your mind can grow stronger as your brain grows older by Elkhonon Golberg - ISBN 0743264010 - 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
• Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience by A.C. Grayling, The Barnes & Noble Review April 2010
• Stanford Center on Longevity

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

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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.

Categories

• Psychology
• Neurology

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