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Peak Performance Aging: Growing Old, Staying Rad with Steven Kotler

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The Brain Shifts That Unlock Empathy and Wisdom

Once you are in your 50s, if you really want to take advantage of this, you have to combat two things that happen with age. One, we become more risk averse over time. People, social fears go wet. We get to our 50s, we no longer give a fuck what any thinks. And financial fears don't actually decline with age if you work with money. If you are fearful, fear, nor epinephrine, blocks the anterior signal that's cortex ability to think creatively. You need to think creatively to unlock these superpowers.

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