The Science of Wisdom in Aging

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In this episode, my guest is Dr. Dilip Jeste, the author of Wiser: The Scientific Roots of Wisdom, Compassion, and What Makes Us Good. Today’s episode is a rebroadcast of one of my favorite (and first) conversations on the podcast. Dr. Jeste is a neuropsychiatrist who has spent more than 20 years studying aspects of wisdom and healthy aging. He is a former Director of the Center for Healthy Aging at UC San Diego and a distinguished professor of psychiatry and neurosciences.

In the conversation, Dr. Jeste and I discuss,

• What wisdom is and what it’s not
• Cultivating compassion
• Emotional regulation
• Leveraging the wisdom of elders
• Wisdom and loneliness and much more

Learn more about Dr. Dilip Jeste here. Consider taking the Jeste-Thomas Wisdom Index mentioned in the conversation.

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🦉 Additional Resources Related to the Podcast:

• The Wandering Mind with Janie Kreiner
• How to Live - Like Socrates
• Thinking 101 with Woo-kyoung Ahn
• The Examined Life