How to Deal With the Fear of Death

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Many people cope with the fear of demise by thinking about the legacy that they'll build. For most strivers, for a lot of people listening to us bat ther, if you ever say, my work is my life, then professional decline is your death and that's what you're afraid of. And so people are just just terrified of it. Terrified at people in, you know, she used to be betteran she is. That's one of the big barriers. Youknow, an pep see any sort of decline in their fluid intelligence and their skills that are tied to their fluid intelligence,. They get so freaked out that they just basically do anything to stay alive, anything

#363: In our 20’s and 30’s, we have high levels of fluid intelligence, or raw intellectual horsepower. We can ace tests, impress people with our memory and recall, and analyze facts, documents and data.

But in our 40’s and 50’s, we have higher levels of crystallized intelligence, which allows us to draw together novel insights from across domains.

Fluid intelligence allows us to analyze, or break apart.

Crystallized intelligence allows us to synthesize, or put together.

Each type of intelligence invites us to express different skills, to pivot our role at work – or perhaps even to change careers or industries altogether.

In today’s episode, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks discusses these two types of intelligence, and outlines how we can gracefully move from one strength to the next.

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