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The Wisdom Paradox:
How your mind can grow stronger as your brain grows older
by Elkhonon Goldberg, Simon and Schuster
337 pages, notes and index, £14.99 hardback, ISBN 0-7432-6401-0
Reviewed by Susan Blackmore for Focus
November 2005
The subtitle says it all! But don’t expect a
superficial self-help manual. In this fascinating exploration of aging
brains, Goldberg interweaves neuroscience with the lives of famous
people and stories from his own neurological patients, to show that as
we lose energy, memory and speed, our brains may develop new powers of
pattern recognition, decision making and insight
– the basics of wisdom. As someone with elderly parents and
heading that way myself I enjoyed learning about my aging brain and
was greatly encouraged by Goldberg’s motto; “If we value wisdom,
then aging is a fair price to pay for it.”
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