“Every idea in this book runs against our natural tendency to want to relax, take it easy, reward ourselves for decades of work and childrearing. Our default mode at midlife is entropy. The default is not destiny, and on this,… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“The men and women who scored highest on conscientiousness—that is, who control their impulses, who were dependable and goal-oriented—had 89 percent lower risk of… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“Lonely people were not faking their symptoms. Their own bodies were reacting to loneliness at a cellular level, trying to nudge them to make… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“I came to define God by His handiwork: a craftsman who builds the hope of eternity into our genes, a master electrician and chemist who outfits our brains to access another dimension, a guru who rewards our spiritual efforts by allowing us to feel united with all things, an intelligence that pervades every atom and every nanosecond, all time and… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share
“The two researchers collaborated on a pilot study.32 What they found was that loneliness reprogrammed a person’s genes in the same way that fear of being outed altered the genes of closeted men. Loneliness changes the immune system. Specifically, feeling isolated turns on genes for inflammation—which are the first responders to tissue damage or bacterial threats—and it puts the brakes… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share
“Develop thought patterns, particularly purpose in life, now, in one’s forties, fifties, and sixties. Find a purpose beyond your career—because you will one day… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“There are no periods, no paragraphs, there’s no punctuation,” Utzschneider said. “There’s no structure to give us a sense of order.” — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“In general, the older you are, the more adept you are at managing your emotions. Compared with young people, middle-aged and especially older people… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“Every idea in this book runs against our natural tendency to want to relax, take it easy, reward ourselves for decades of work and… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“The real distinction between a material and spiritual worldview, [William] James wrote does not rest in "hair splitting abstraction about matter's inner essence, or… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“In fact, people with little purpose were two and a half times more likely to develop dementia than those with a mission.” — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“researchers (with Ph.D.’s). “It turns out that if you get dementia, you’ll get it later, but you’ll also progress a little bit more rapidly”… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
“Fully a third of people who, as autopsies indicate, have the disease show no cognitive decline, no evidence of Alzheimer’s.1 At first, other scientists… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
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